Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL, 2009
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 252 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that ran February 14 through May 10, 2009 in Forth Worth at the Amon Carter Museum and then October 3, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Features a foreword by Gregory G. Knight, an introduction by Kenneth C. Burkhart along with essays by John Rohrbach and Abigail Foerstner and a chronology by Lynne Brown. A fine copy in gray cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Crane on the title page. The best retrospective monograph on this important but underappreciated artist.
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- Title
- Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- CRANE, Barbara, John Rohrbach, Abigail Foerstner
- Publisher
- Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
- Publication year
- 2009
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 093890342X
- ISBN 13
- 9780938903420
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 6.063 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Photography
Barbara Crane’s subjects are commonplace: a piece of driftwood, a cluster of wild mushrooms, a crowd of commuters rushing for the train. The resulting photographs, however, are far from ordinary. They are imaginative, peculiar, jarring, and, like their creator, defy easy explanation.
For more than sixty years, Crane has forged her own path as a photographer. Lacking a darkroom, she began using Polaroid materials. Lacking suitable models, she paid her children to pose. Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision celebrates this Chicagoan’s wide-ranging art with a gorgeous collection of more than 250 color and black and white photographs.
“Once I developed my first role of film in 1948,” Crane notes, “nothing else mattered.” Spanning the breadth of her career, from early studies of the human form to long narrow landscapes evoking Asian scrolls; from silver gelatin and platinum prints to present-day digital works, it is by far the largest and most definitive overview of her work to date. Replete with a critical analysis by John Rohrbach and a biographical essay by Abigail Foerstner, it will delight and challenge anyone interested in contemporary photography.
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About the Author
Abigail Foerstner teaches science and environmental journalism at Northwestern University. She is the author of Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers and James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles.
John Rohrbach is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Center Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke and Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness.
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