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Sam Contis: Overpass (Paperback)
Sam Contis; Text written by Daisy Hildyard; Designed by Julian Bittiner
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R1,130
Discovery Miles 11 300
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Overpass is about what it means to move through the landscape.
Walking along a vast network of centuries-old footpaths through the
English countryside, artist Sam Contis focuses on stiles, the
simple structures that offer a means of passage over walls and
fences and allow public access through privately owned land. In her
immersive sequences of black-and-white photographs, they become
repeating sculptural forms in the landscape, invitations to free
movement on one hand and a reminder of the history of enclosure on
the other. Made from wood and stone, each unique, they appear as
markers pointing the way forward, or decaying and half-hidden by
the undergrowth. An essay by writer Daisy Hildyard contextualizes
this body of work within histories of the British landscape and
contemporary ecological discourses. In an age of rising nationalism
and a renewed insistence on borders, Overpass invites us to reflect
on how we cross boundaries, who owns space, and the ways we have
shaped the natural environment and how we might shape it in the
future.
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Day Sleeper (Paperback)
Dorothea Lange; Edited by Sam Contis
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R1,220
Discovery Miles 12 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the
iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's
extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world
centred around the figure of the day sleeper - at once a symbol of
respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes
of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and
Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange,
and includes previously unseen photographs of her family,
portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of
San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured
alongside other works of Contis' in the exhibition Dorothea Lange:
Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February-May
2020.
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