Gloucester Photographs - Softcover

Nubar Alexanian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966973313 ISBN 13: 9780966973310

Publisher: Walker Creek Press, 2001

Forty-five beautifully reproduced black and white photographs of Gloucester, Massachusetts by photographer Nubar Alexanian. Softbound Edition 10 x 10 inches. These images manage to be beautiful and honest at the same time. They are the real Gloucester, hard edges and all. - Sebastian Junger, author, The Perfect Storm Gloucester Photographs gathers over two decades of work by Nubar Alexanian, whose haunting black-and-white images depict the life of one New England coastal town, from the world of its hard-working fishermen to its sleek schooner races. - Newsweek

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For thirty years, Nubar Alexanian has been photographing life in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a fishing city on the edge of America between the Old World and the New, its cultural soul pledged to Italy, Finland, Portugal, Cape Verde and a hundred other places. Its primary occupation, fishing, is the most dangerous job in America, claiming generation after generation of husbands, fathers and sons, and giving rise to a tradition of funerals, fiestas, novenas and, ultimately, hope. These traditions bring us images made in Gloucester’s neighborhoods and by extension all the way out to Georges Bank. All of this takes place in the astonishing light of her breathtaking landscape.

For those intrigued with Gloucester, these photographs are an intimate exploration of her complexity and beauty, celebrating what it is that draws us to this place and why. For those who call it home, Alexanian’s Gloucester–his people and landscapes–resonate so deeply and eloquently, they invite a reaffirmation of our devotion, revealing more of our soul than our image. In these documentary photographs, image transcends moment, specificity gives way to metaphor, and our experience is transformed to a poetic discovery of this special place.

About the Author:

Nubar Alexanian is one of the top photojournalists working today, whose photographs have appeared in all the major magazines in the United States and Europe. For the past 25 years he has travelled to more than 30 countries focusing on long term personal projects which describe the human condition. From 1978 to 1989 he travelled extensively to Peru documenting the life and culture of the Andean people. He received a Fulbright Artist Fellowship in 1983 to continue his work in Peru which allowed him to live and work there from March through August, 1983. The culmination of this work, Stones In The Road: Photographs of Peru (Aperture Books, 1992), documents the migration of the Andean culture from the mountains to the shanty towns of Lima, caused by a fierce civil war and a growing illegal drug industry.

"For the lover of peopled enigmas and tonally rich photos splashed big across two pages, this book is a find, a breath of contemplative art in a fast-forward video world. Alexanian's pictures are metaphors. Read them like poems." The Boston Globe

“I believe we, reportage photographers of the human condition, have a moral duty to get as close as we can to the people we photograph and to draw attention to all the dignity in the world, as Nubar Alexanian has managed to do so well in this book. It gave me immense pleasure to see my Latin-American people portrayed with so much tenderness.”

Sebastiao Salgado

“...an authentic expression of our geography and our people making at the same time a personal statement which is artistically original and morally compelling.”

Mario Vargas Llosa In 1996 his second book, Where Music Comes From, was published by Dewi Lewis Publication, Manchester, England. This work, his first major color project, explores what inspires the great musicians of our time, documenting the creative processes of musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass, Emmylou Harris, Paul Simon and others. In 1997 it was chosen by the

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