Language: English
Published by TIME Inc. Magazine Company, New York, 1991
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cook, Dennis (cover photograph) (illustrator). Near fine condition color photographic softcover/magazine wraps. All pages are in fine unmarked condition. Includes Introduction and List of Photographers. Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs. "The pictures you hold in your hands are from the LIFE that, suspended as a weekly in 1972, was reborn as a monthly in 1978. Like most such collections, this one is a kind of betrayal; the photographs - and photographers - most poignantly present here are the ones that are not included. There are several other collections called The Best of LIFE that we could have done, and perhaps someday we will. In the meantime, we will busy ourselves with the sort of journalism that inspires pictures that one day can stand alone, pictures that outlive their stories, pictures as great as poems. We chose the text of a poem, Whitman's "One's-Self I sing" from Leaves of Grass, to accompany the photographs in the section that follows. But as an epigraph for this collection, a few lines from Whitman's "Starting from Paumanok" serve better. Let them serve as an epigraph for photography as well, and for this magazine: This then is life, Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. How curious! How real!" " - excerpt from the Introduction by James R. Gaines, managing editor.
Language: English
Published by Thames & Hudson, London / New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 050097053X ISBN 13: 9780500970539
Hardcover. Condition: As new. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with illustrated jacket. 600 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm. Contrasting intimate visits to artists' studios, intended to evoke the particular elements of their own interior landscapes, with explorations of the USA's sweeping landscapes of light and form, which have inspired artists since the Luminists and the landscape specialists of the Hudson River School, 'Art Studio America' provides a privileged look at the dreams, ideas and thoughts of 115 artists who are active today. While the world may know their work well, they have rarely, if ever, allowed their personal landscapes to be traversed in such an intimate manner and against the backdrop, both literal and figurative, of their country's larger environment. Some are immigrants, while others chart their professional journey's through their work amid the vagaries of the American art market. From established figures to up-and-coming artists, 'Art Studio America' provides a privileged glimpse into the workings of one of the world's largest artistic communities.
Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover, 132 pgs. Sealed, new. Robin Friend's second book Apiary continues to explore the surreal and sinister haunting of the British landscape he first depicted in Bastard Countryside with an apocalyptic, nocturnal series flirting with notions of democracy and resistance.
Published by New York : Macmillan, 1972., 1972
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American ed. ; 157 p. illus. 21 cm. ; LCCN: 72-78615 ; OCLC: 508267 ; red cloth with color pictorial dustjacket ; autos featured include hudson saxon peugeot woods-mobilette detroit electric trumbull mendip adler dixi isotta fraschini lancia the ta scania dodge pierce-arrow packard buick briggs stratton ford rolls-royce voisin cyclauto hochkiss renault ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; unpaginated; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Language: English
Published by Loose Joints, [London, UK], 2018
ISBN 10: 1912719045 ISBN 13: 9781912719044
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 9.75 x 11 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Fine in original pictorial cloth-wrapped, paper-covered boards. With an essay by Robert Macfarlane.
US$ 417.94
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: New. Signed by the artist. Signed by Author(s).
Seller: Bucklin Gallery, Thornwood, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: New. First Edition. Bastard Countryside collects together 15 years worth of exploration within the British landscape, dwelling on what Victor Hugo called the âbastard countrysideâ: âsomewhat ugly but bizarre, made up of two different naturesâ. Friendâs large-format colour images scrutinise these in-between, unkempt, and often surreal marginal areas of the country, highlighting frictions between the pastoral sublime and the discarded, often polluted reality of the present. Starting from a classical landscape tradition, Friendâs meticulous 5x4 photographs are given heightened effect through exaggerations of colour and composition, embodying friction between British pastoral ideals and present reality. In particular, Friend follows moments in which the expected narrative of the landscape is rudely interrupted: often through leakage, pollution, or the wreckage and containment of nature. In his accompanying essay, writer Robert Macfarlane describes Bastard Countryside as âa vision par excellence of our synthetic âmodern natureââ" produced by assemblage and entanglement rather than purity and distinctionâ. Contained within Friendâs photographs are âhard questions [â¦] about what kinds of landscape one might wish either to pass through or to live in; about what versions of âmodern natureâ might be worth fighting for, and why.â Robin Friend (b.1983) is a London-based photographer who grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He divides his time between his fine art practice and commissioned work. Recent projects include the award-winning books Sanctuary: Britainâs Artists and their Studios and Art Studio America (Thames & Hudson, 2011-13); a collaborative choreographic work for the BBC, Winged Bull in the Elephant Case (2017, with Wayne McGregor); and a National Gallery exhibition project, documenting the gallery's wartime art storage in a Snowdonian mine (2018). Friend's work has been exhibited at Aperture Gallery, New York; Christies, Paris and at the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Somerset House & the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Bastard Countryside is his first book. Robin Friend, 2020. Portfolio includes all 50 pictures from the book, beautifully hand-printed by the artist on archival pigment paper. Each print is 20 x 16 inches. Limited Edition of ony 5 portfolios (this being #2/5) presented in a clam-shell box with a letter-pressed certificate of authenticity. Although not called for in the edition, each print has also been individually HAND SIGNED by the artist on the verso. Edition 1/5 has been collected by the Martin Parr Foundation. PORTFOLIO CONDITION: New/Mint (the set).
Published by Loose Joints, 2018
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 348.28
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A good clean copy of this book.
Published by Loose Joints (1 Jan. 2019) - ISBN 978-1912719044 0, 2019
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Loose Joints (1 Jan. 2019) - ISBN 978-1912719044 Still sealed in publishers shrinkwrap HARDCOVER Original publishers wrappers - Original-Einband Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.