New York. Just open it ! (Essays "Quarried 'Windows'" by Kohtaro Iizawa, translated by Lora Sharnoff and "A poetic chronicle of New York" by Ivan C. Karp.

Gozu, Masao.

Published by Tokyo, Advertise Communication Co. (1990)., 1990

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Folio (36 x 26 cm.). [1] Bl., 147 Duotone-Tafeln, [7] Bl. OPbd. mit illustr. OU. u. dreifarbig bedruckter Klarsicht-Schutzumschlag. Vgl. Parr/Badger III, 163 ("In New York", New York 1980-1990). - Erste Ausgabe. - Von M. Gozu signiert und datiert. - "A fascinating book on a difficult subject: street photography. Shot from about 1970-1980 in Manhattan's lower East Side. Including an entire series shot of the same door way day after day" (Verlag). - "In "Windows", the series Gozu began shooting shortly after moving to Brooklyn in 1971, Gozu photographed the people in New York s immigrant quarters as they looked out of their apartment windows at a passing parade. The two other series included in the book are also portrayals of life in downtown 1970 s New York: in "264 Bowery Street" Gozu repeatedly shot a doorstep and the people using it as a resting stop over several months and even years while the "Harry s Bar" series shows glass windows of a bar and the guests sitting behind them" (zu einer Ausgabe der New York Serie von 2018). - "The project, therefore, is typological in character, the window frames forming the proscenium arch where the action takes place, a 'frame within the frame' of the picture edge. Yet, although Gozu's pictures are formal and repetive, they hold a certain fascination, because of one unpredictable element: the people gazing out of the windows. The theatre of life of which they contribute makes this not just a conceptual artist's book, but a work of conceptual documentary" (Parr/Badger). - Der japanische Fotograf und Bildhauer M. Gozu (geb. 1946) studierte 1970 bis 1973 am Toyo Institute of Art and Design und an der Brooklyn Museum Art School. Seine erste "Windows"-Serie wurde 1980 bei O. K. Harris in New York ausgestellt. Während er für seine Portraits meist Fenster als Rahmen wählt, geht er mit seinen Skulpturen einen Schritt weiter und macht diese selbst zum Thema. Außerdem rekonstruiert er seit 1984 auch Fenster historischer Gebäude. - Klarsicht-Schutzumschlag am Kapital etwas eingerissen, sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: englisch. Seller Inventory # 104177BB

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Title: New York. Just open it ! (Essays "Quarried '...

Publisher: Tokyo, Advertise Communication Co. (1990).

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition