Mariana Cook: Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8862081693 ISBN 13: 9788862081696

Publisher: Damiani, 2011

Synopsis

Photographer Mariana Cook (born 1955) is best known for her intimate character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye, as published in her much-acclaimed collections Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons, Generations of Women, Couples, Faces of Science and Mathematicians. Cook departs from her portrait work with Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries, a project that was conceived one day at her home on Martha's Vineyard, when 56 cows strayed through a crumbling section of the stone wall she shares with her neighbor. From this serendipitous moment of inspiration, Cook embarked on an eight-year journey, travelling from New England to the American South, Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean and Peru in pursuit of dry stone walls. Far from being a conventional travelogue, these beautiful black-and-white photographs portray the wall in landscape, the wall as abstract form, and the return of rocks to nature. Cook is fascinated with the juxtaposition of stones as an instance of geometric composition, as well as with the resonance between walls of different cultures. With a tribute from Wendell Berry and essays providing a context for the walls of each region, the resulting collection captures a fundamental aspect of the relationship human beings forge with the land they inhabit.

About this title

About the Author:

Mariana Cook was born in New York City in 1955. Her photographs are held in a number of national and international collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, the Vcitoria and Albert Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France among many others

Review:

Sometimes inspiration arrives when you least expect it. That's certainly true for "Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries," the latest book by the photographer Mariana Cook. For eight years Ms. Cook took her two medium-format cameras and a tripod to places as far afield as Malta, Peru and the Aran Islands, searching for dry stone walls built without mortar but with plenty of patience and ingenuity. (Carol Kino The New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Damiani
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8862081693
• ISBN 13: 9788862081696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192