Roni Horn: Another Water - Softcover

Horn, Roni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 390824725X ISBN 13: 9783908247258

Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac, 2000

Synopsis

In this exquisitely produced artist's book, New York artist Roni Horn photographed the River Thames in London, exploring the theme of water as an ever-present, life-creating spiritual and physiological force that influences every undercurrent of our existence. Combining selected text with 47 full color, double-page spreads of the river's ever-changing surface, Horn has inserted footnotes that reference poems, short stories, records of dark and light events that took place in the river or on its shores, as well as the artist's own poetic reflections. An additional level is introduced by interspersed, so-called "Dead Body Reports", collected from the logs of Scotland Yard, that tell incredible and sometimes shocking stories of suicides and accidents whose secrets the River Thames will never fully reveal to us.

About this title

About the Author

Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York. Since earning her MFA from Yale in 1978, her sculptures, installations, and photographs have been shown extensively throughout the world. Previous photography books include the seven-volume project To Place, consisting of: Bluff Life (1990), Folds (1991), Lava (1992), Pooling Waters (1994), Verne's Journey (1995), Haraldsdottir (1996), and Arctic Circles (1998). She lives and works in New York.

Review

It is nice to be carried away by someone else's thoughts while looking at water, to see whether your thoughts match hers. -- The New York Times, October 20, 2000 – Sarah Boxer

Edition details

• Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 390824725X
• ISBN 13: 9783908247258
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96