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John Gossage - The Thirty Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon (Hardcover)
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John Gossage - The Thirty Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon (Hardcover)
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John Gossage, the renowned American photographer and photography
book-maker, presents two companion volumes and his first ever books
in color. Engaged in a dance, neither book comes first, there is no
hierarchy or sequence to the pair of volumes. Gossage is one of the
most literary of photographic book authors and in The Thirty-Two
Inch Ruler, the narrative, whilst not autobiographical, is about a
neighborhood in which he lives; one that is singular in the United
States. At the same time provincial and international, it is a
neighborhood populated by ambassadorial residences, embassies, and
the lavish private homes of those who are in positions of power and
influence in Washington. A project he began with the arrival of a
new neighbor, the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and made
over a full year's cycle of seasons, these are images from the
drift of privilege. The streets, cars, homes and yards of this
neighborhood are photographed on perfect spring or autumn days,
with sparklingly clear blue skies, and flowers or foliage accenting
the order. These are photographs about how one might wish the world
to be, how beauty might be seen as desire. In the same year Gossage
made the Map of Babylon, photographing digitally from Washington,
to Germany, to China and places in-between. This look away, to
places beyond the immediate and local, is a classic exploration of
particulars of the outside world.
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