Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna

Author: Sandro Parmiggiani

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9788857207254

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Kenna's photographs captivate viewers through their silent drama and magnetism; rather than being accurate descriptions of a place, the photographer seems interested in capturing the invisible lines which enclose space, and in so doing arousing a viewers imagination and reverie.

Minor White
Minor White

Author: Minor White

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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"Minor White is one of the greatest of photographers. I do not make this statement lightly ...The sheer beauty of the medium of photography is tuned to the exact meaning of the visualized image." --Ansel Adams This selection of Minor White's superb photographs is accompanied by extensive, revealing excerpts from White's letters and amplified by James Baker Hall's perceptive observations of the artist-teacher at work.

Asylum of the Birds
Asylum of the Birds

Author: Roger Ballen

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500544298

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A masterful new monograph from one of the most revered and highly collectible contemporary art photographers in the world Roger Ballen is one of the most original image makers of the twenty-first century. Asylum of the Birds showcases his iconic photographs, which were all taken entirely within the confines of a house in a Johannesburg suburb, the location of which remains a tightly guarded secret. The inhabitants of the house, both people and animals, and most notably the ever-present birds, are the cast who perform within a sculptural and decorated theatrical interior that the author creates and orchestrates. The resulting images are compelling and dynamic, existing somewhere between still life and portrait. They are richly layered with graffiti, drawings, animals, and found objects. In a world where photographers seek to avoid definition, Roger Ballen is a true original who not only defies genres, but has defined his own artistic space as well.

Melancholy and the Landscape
Melancholy and the Landscape

Author: Jacky Bowring

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1317366956

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Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness. The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.

Visions of Paradise
Visions of Paradise

Author: National Geographic Society (U. S.)

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781426203381

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