Richard Misrach: Golden Gate
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Editor: Lesley MartinPhotographer: Richard Misrach
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-15
ISBN: 1931788510
Number of pages: 132
Publisher: Aperture
Book Reviews of Richard Misrach: Golden Gate
Book Review: Worth being a collectable book
Summary: 5 Stars
I think it's a great book to owe. I like how the photographer choose one spot to record all the time behavior of the same seen over more than 3 years and more than 10 times a year. What I know about Richard (the photographer) that he usually don't use filters in his camera.. as they describe his photography as an honest photography, also he uses an 8x10 Large format camera the thing that makes his photographs so sharp and life. The book is not boring and have a lot of picture to talk about.
The book is away from the very complicated photographic ideas, the book is so simple but very rich of a lot of colorful photographs and the time and date of every photo. It's a very great family gathering book, and I think it's a collectable as so.
Photographing a one seen for more than several time in deferent seasons is well known in the history of photography but not like how Richard Misrach viewd as in a whole book with too many photographs.
The finishing of the book is great and neat and large to view to the limit that would make your eye pupil open wide.
About the price? I think the book worth more than the price it offers.
Summary of Richard Misrach: Golden Gate
Aperture is delighted to reissue Richard Misrach's highly acclaimed publication, Golden Gate. The photographs for Golden Gate were made over a three-year period from a single vantage point on the artist's front porch, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Photographed at all times of day and night, in every season, the pictures reveal an astonishing range of changing weather, light and color. The rigorous execution of a simple premise brings a fresh appreciation to this famous western vista. Misrach's photographs are illuminated by important essays by noted art historian T.J. Clark and geographer Richard Walker. Geoff Dyer writes of the work: "We are in the presence of that uniquely photographic and uniquely American phenomenon: the documentary sublime. [Golden Gate] takes you, metaphorically and literally, as far west as you can get. Just as Frederic Edwin Church's colossal "Niagara" (1857) still surpasses the iconic familiarity of the location, so Misrach's pictures make us see an overphotographed subject in a new light; literally. But the light that shrouds, frames, drenches and (always) dwarfs the bridge is also historical. It is as if the sky of every one of the paintings on show at Tate Britain has, at some point, ended up in the Bay Area... Church's rainbow even turns up in one of them. All--even the ones that are completely abstract, just air, color, light--attest to a verifiable truth: at that moment it really looked like this. We have arrived at a vision of the sublime that is literal and absolute. It is impossible to go any further."Artists, A-Z Books
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