Freeman Patterson: Embracing Creation - Hardcover

Patterson, Freeman; Smart, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0864929056 ISBN 13: 9780864929051

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Winner, Redgees Legacy Award

Throughout photographer Freeman Patterson's remarkable decades-long career, his ambition has been to expose the spiritual, religious, and even mystical dimensions that lie beyond the literalness of the image itself. Patterson has continually strived to have viewers appreciate the compositional grammar and unique syntax of this visual art, pushing to transcend the picturesque qualities of the image and expand the viewing moment to a longer and more profound level of experience.

For Patterson, life, the mind, and nature are fully a part of each other. Through images that both inspire and provoke, Freeman Patterson: Embracing Creation shows us that such inter-connectivity is the mechanism by which all things are affected; this is the fundamental concept that Patterson lives, believes, and expresses as art.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"Long before I knew from science that there is no fundamental distinction or separation between matter and spirit, I sensed it from my own experience. I realized it more consciously for the first time when I used a macro lens to peer through some tall grasses with my camera."

Freeman Patterson is acclaimed as one of the most distinguished photographers of the natural world. His verdant landscapes, sun-drenched deserts, and spectral images of human habitation reach toward us, touch us, and stir our hearts. Embracing Creation is an inspired journey through the renowned artist's creative process, vision, and experience.

Curator and art historian Tom Smart's opening essay peels away layers of mystique and reveals the soul of the man and his unique way of seeing, providing for the first time a complete portrayal of Patterson's œuvre. In his own words, Freeman Patterson candidly reveals the evolution of his creative techniques and the experiences that have shaped both his vocation and his life. For Patterson, there is no separation between mind and matter: life, the mind, and nature are fully conjoined. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Embracing Creation gives readers and viewers privileged access to an abundantly intelligent universe as perceived through the lens of one of Canada's most outstanding photographers.

From the Back Cover

Whenever we focus the lens of our camera on anything, we are also focusing it on ourselves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0864929056
• ISBN 13: 9780864929051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240