Evans Appropriation
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Böger, Astrid: Documenting Lives. James Agee's and Walker Evans's <I>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</I>. Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 1994. ISBN: 978-3-631-48096-0
While there is an implicit claim at the basis of most social documentary that the status quo has to change, James Agee's and Walker Evans's seminal work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) diverges from that pattern in that it rejects facile improvement programs and foregrounds the ethical and aesthetic problems involved in all documentary. Reflecting recent theoretical work on such questions as the appropriation of the Other, textual and visual violence, and documentary realism, this study is an inquiry into the ways the two approaches in the book - Agee's experimental prose and the brilliant photography of Walker Evans - gesture toward an aesthetic ideal that tries not to objectify its subjects but to engage them, and the readers, as equals.
173 pp., 26 fig. Pb. *neuwertig*
[SW: Anglistik]
Evans, Cadwallader. Steam-Engines. Memorial of Cadwallader Evans, for An appropriation to enable him to test his invention to prevent the Explosion of Steam-boilers, &c. Washington: 1839
5 pp., folding plate; issued as 25th Congress, 3d Session, HD 88; extraction roughness at spine, age speckling to text but plate very good, now disbound in self wrappers; the last two pages contain a list of citizens of Pittsburgh who think that Evans' safety-guard is worthy of consideration *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961*
[SW: steam boilers, history of science and technology]
Witkin, Joel-Peter (Artist/Photographer) & Borhan, Pierre (Contributor). JOEL-PETER WITKIN: DISCIPLE & MASTER Rare Signed Copy. New York City, NY: Fotofolio, 2000.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 119 pages. As New in As New Dust Jacket. The photographer's collection of "hommage" art photographs . One of the most beautiful art photography books of the new century. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. A ravishingly beautiful production by Joel-Peter Witkin: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray hard boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin. Text by Pierre Borhan. Printed on thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In blue-dominant pictorial DJ, which juxtaposes Witkin's and Man Ray's images, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Continues and expands the artist/photographer's obsession with the irresistibly macabre and grotesque, which have now become his trademark subject and style. Witkin has paired some of his most famous images with their antecedent inspirations. The work of people like Charles Negre, Walker Evans, Horst, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus have apparently had a profound impact on the highly unusual, one-of-a-kind art of Joel-Peter Witkin. Witkin has been described (by himself and his admirers) as a "God-obsessed artist". He is, in the most unusual way: He sees God in human beings who do not look like human beings and who are therefore, in Witkin's eyes, otherworldly presences. Witkin's gods are pinheads, dwarfs, giants, people born with wings, horns, tails, fins, claws, reversed feet, additional arms, legs, eyes, breasts, genitals, ears, noses, lips, and most bizarre of all, heads. These are real people who came to Witkin to be photographed. They are real people and to the ordinary eye, extreme, cruel aberrations of Nature. To Witkin, they are "beings from other planets. Anyone bearing the wounds of Christ. Anyone claiming to be God" . Although Witkin will always be an acquired taste, the fact remains that his work cannot be ignored if one is to understand the appropriation of photography in the late-modern period by artists adept in traditional media (Witkin is a brilliant draftsman and painter) . The vertiginous line between Arbus-ian voyeurism and Blakean mysticism that his work treads makes Witkin's work among the best ever taken by an American artist/photographer, very faraway, to be sure, from someone like Garry Winogrand, but also tragically grand in the way it is rooted in and captures our pain. Ultimately about questioning, redefining, and extending the boundaries of what should be considered sublime and beautiful in art and in life, Witkin's work is a modern-day Book of Revelations. A "must-have" title for Joel-Peter Witkin collectors. <b><i> This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black marker on the title page by Joel-Peter Witkin. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time and is now highly collectible. This is one of very few signed copies still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. </B></i> One of the greatest living American artist/photographers. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOEL-PETER WITKIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1584180218. Signed by Author.