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Wave Music by photographer Clifford Ross, opens with explosive images of stormy seas and skies--photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes. This series presents gorgeous, formalist slices of nature at her most tempestuous and romantic. As Wave Music progresses, however, the focus tightens with increasing obsession on the processes and materials of the photographic medium. The "Hurricane" series is followed by "Horizons," classically composed images of sky and quiet surf, and finally, by images of pure photographic grain. The "Grain" pictures are pure abstractions--tonal fields of grey. Each "Grain" image echoes the tones seen in the previous two series and addresses the very stuff of black-and-white photography itself. In Wave Music, Clifford Ross provides an incredible, heuristic journey, from the ecstatic formalism of ocean waves to the abstract sublime of pure light. Underlying each of the series and providing a unifying thread, are shifting elements of gesture, composition, and tone. Each of the images is exquisitely reproduced in tritone.
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About the Author:
Clifford Ross was born in 1952. He began his career as a painter, graduating from Yale University with a BA in Art and Art History in 1974. His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the International Center of Photography, among other institutions. His images are in numerous collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Ross is represented by the Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
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"Most visitors to the eastern end of New York's Long Island fix their gaze on the area's soigné townships, outsized mansions, or dune-lined beaches. Photographer Clifford Ross, though, looks out to sea--and captures it with sculptural clarity." --Condé Nast Traveler
"...Wave Music, a collection of Poseidon's blanket photographed during hurricanes, delivers a series of natural mini-masterpieces ratifying a perfect balance of noise and minimalism. In his color-absent photographic essay, you often forget you're looking at water -- Ross captures both the crisp edges of the wave before crashing and the carefully orchestrated slosh." -- Andrea Dimpfl --Flaunt Magazine
"Taken cumulatively, there is an overt visual decrescendo at play here. Powerful chaos, quiet contemplation, enigmatic abstraction. These rich ideas, presented in a broad movement coursing throughout the book, are at the heart of Ross' project." --Photo-Eye
"The images in this study of the sea by Clifford Ross are powerful, dynamic, and mesmerizing." -- Ben Brain --Amateur Photographer
"Shot with conventional handheld cameras, the photographs capture huge, frothy swells as they crush the sand beneath them. Ross did not come by these pictures easily--he waded into the roiling surf, tethered to a lifeline--yet they have a balanced, sculptural quality about them." -- Thomas Jackson --Forbes
"...Wave Music, a collection of Poseidon's blanket photographed during hurricanes, delivers a series of natural mini-masterpieces ratifying a perfect balance of noise and minimalism. In his color-absent photographic essay, you often forget you're looking at water -- Ross captures both the crisp edges of the wave before crashing and the carefully orchestrated slosh." -- Andrea Dimpfl --Flaunt Magazine
"Taken cumulatively, there is an overt visual decrescendo at play here. Powerful chaos, quiet contemplation, enigmatic abstraction. These rich ideas, presented in a broad movement coursing throughout the book, are at the heart of Ross' project." --Photo-Eye
"The images in this study of the sea by Clifford Ross are powerful, dynamic, and mesmerizing." -- Ben Brain --Amateur Photographer
"Shot with conventional handheld cameras, the photographs capture huge, frothy swells as they crush the sand beneath them. Ross did not come by these pictures easily--he waded into the roiling surf, tethered to a lifeline--yet they have a balanced, sculptural quality about them." -- Thomas Jackson --Forbes
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- PublisherAperture
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1931788618
- ISBN 13 9781931788618
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages132
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