Uno splendido
libro fotografico che racconta l'America, i suoi personaggi, i suoi luoghi,
il suo stile.
Il fotografo Jeff Dunas, ha saputo unire alla sua grande capacità
artistica, lo spirito di chi sa osservare e capire la vita di una nazione.
Libro eccezionale per la bellezza delle fotografie e l'altissima qualità
della stampa. Un volume che farà innamorare i fotografi e gli amanti
della fotografia. Inoltre uno sguardo inedito sugli Stati Uniti d'America.
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INTRODUCTION
Jeff Dunas: American Pictures
Memories are considered ephemeral, but they are holistic; they encompass
all experience including vision. So why do we confuse photographs with memories?
Photographs only contain visual evidence, with all the elasticity of fiction.
Why do we trust photographs even more than memory when they are highly selective
and notoriously impeachable, even though, even though they might be clearly
straight and unmanipulated? Our best critical writers on photography have
been breaking down this question into manageable divisions for the last
three decades: mirror and window, document and expression, form and context,
semiotics and structure.
But even after we appreciate all of these critical position, it is hard
to deny that it is the factual information that photographs apparently represent
that holds our fascination. The knowledge that they are not reliable objective
documents fails to prevent us from accepting them as subjective evidence.
We let them comfort us and confirm our experience and even our memories:
this thing existed; I was there and saw it exactly this way. Or perhaps
more importantly: I can imagine I experienced this thing in just this way.
Better these flat reminders be an inventory of our lives than a lot of other
things we can't choose to forget.
If we can't help ourselves and confuse the act of seeing with the act of
seeing a photograp, then photographs obligate us, either consciously or
not, to examine perception itself. And, of course, this leads us to question
our own beings, which is built on our memories and perceptions. But if we
keep our balance on this medium that teeters between experience and fiction,
between standing in front of events or objects and standing in front of
a piece of photographic paper, then all hotographs become didactic in a
constructive way. [..]
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Jeff Dunas
AMERICAN PICTURES
editore KONEMANN
edizione 2001
pagine 260
formato 26,5x31,5
cartonato con sovracoperta
tempo medio evasione ordine ESAURITO
19.95 €
19.95 €
ISBN :
EAN : 9783829060806
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