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Picturing Eden

Door Deborah Klochko e.a.

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#347071-KK33
Titel
Picturing Eden
Auteur
Klochko, Deborah & Merry Foresta - and others
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Göttingen : Steidl
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
3865212077
ISBN13
9783865212078
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original green cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs and some in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting

Eden or paradise, that place of perfect happiness, is an ideal that resonates across times and cultures. Picturing Eden assembles the work of contemporary photographers looking for their own paradises, some from a place of contemplation and restoration, some from a place of loneliness and despair. The differences between the heavens they seek and the comparatively dark, messy earth they are limited to charge their work with both political and environmental concerns--this is no heaven. And yet sometimes they make it seem so. By looking at the notion of paradise and the garden through the photographic lens, the book highlights the original lost innocence and the ongoing significance of a humanistic environment, and considers paradise's place in the history of art. Picturing Eden includes w
... (Lees verder)ork from Adam Fuss, Alec Soth, Doug and Mike Starn and Sally Mann among others.
Pagina's
191
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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