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India, Living in an Ornate World explores as to why India is so
rich in colour and ornamentation and why it has such a diversity of
culture and architecture. There is still a large part of the
population who prefer to continue living their traditional life in
old-world settings. Their buildings reflect their long artistic and
creative history. This can be seen in all levels of society. A
modest dwelling in India can give as much an indication of this as
can a palace. The lives of people in streets tend to be lived in
public. The street is the extension of the house. A large part of
this life is carried out on the streets and is often shared with
many different animals due to the Hindu love of them. The
photographs in this book aimed to catch many of these scenes.
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Diary/Landscape (Hardcover)
James Welling; Introduction by Matthew S Witkovsky
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R1,279
Discovery Miles 12 790
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For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the
material and conceptual possibilities of photography.
"Diary/Landscape"--the first mature body of work by this important
contemporary artist--set the framework for his subsequent
investigations of abstraction and his fascination with nineteenth-
and twentieth-century New England.
In July 1977, Welling began photographing a two-volume travel
diary kept by his great-grandmother Elizabeth C. Dixon, as well as
landscapes in southern Connecticut. In one closely cropped image,
lines of tight cursive share the page with a single ivy leaf
preserved in the diary. In another snowy image, a stand of leafless
trees occludes the gleaming Long Island sound. In subject and form,
Welling emulated the great American modernists Alfred Stieglitz,
Paul Strand, and Walker Evans--a bold move for an artist associated
with radical postmodernism. At the same time, Welling's close-ups
of handwriting push to the fore the postmodernist themes of copying
and reproduction.
A beautiful and moving meditation on family, history, memory, and
place, "Diary/Landscape" reintroduced history and private emotion
as subjects in high art, while also helping to usher in the
centrality of photography and theoretical questions about
originality that mark the epochal Pictures Generation. The book is
published to accompany the first-ever complete exhibition of this
series of pivotal photographs, now owned by the Art Institute of
Chicago.
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Stephen Hilger: In the Alley (Hardcover)
Stephen Hilger; Edited by Peter Kayafas; Text written by Matthew Specktor; Interview of James Welling
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R1,205
Discovery Miles 12 050
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