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Harry Gruyaert: Homeland - Hardcover

Matthieussent, Brice; Gruyaert, Harry

 
9780500028995: Harry Gruyaert: Homeland
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500028990 ISBN 13: 9780500028995
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The award-winning Magnum photographer turns his lens on his homeland, Belgium.

Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to take advantage of colour, following in the footsteps of US pioneers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Heavily influenced by Pop Art, his dense compositions are known for weaving together texture, light, colour and architecture to create filmic, jewel-hued tableaux. As a result, they often seem closer to painting than to photography.

Although his wanderlust has taken him to many exotic locations, Gruyaert has frequently returned to his country of birth. Here, in the homeland that he had considered so desolate in his younger years, he found an unexpected beauty. Urban lighting, neon storefronts, glimpses behind suburban dwellings, passers-by wandering drunkenly home, ports that never sleep, countryside with seemingly infinite horizons: his lens captures the singularity of his nation, portraying everyday life in a way that unfolds like a hyper-realistic film set. As a counterpoint to these more recent colour photographs, three portfolios of black-and-white images taken in the 1970s punctuate this visual immersion and journey through the lowlands.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry Gruyaert is a Belgian photographer known for his images of India, Morocco and Egypt as well as his innovative use of colour. He is a member of Magnum Photos. His work has been published in a number of books and exhibited widely, and has won the Kodak Prize.

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Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to take advantage of colour, following in the footsteps of US pioneers like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Heavily influenced by Pop Art, his dense compositions are known for weaving together texture, light, colour and architecture to create filmic, jewel-hued tableaux. As a result, they often seem closer to painting than to photography.

Although his wanderlust has taken him to many exotic locations, Gruyaert has frequently returned to his country of birth. Here, in the homeland that he had considered so desolate in his younger years, he found an unexpected beauty. Urban lighting, neon storefronts, glimpses behind suburban dwellings, passers-by wandering drunkenly home, ports that never sleep, countryside with seemingly infinite horizons: his lens captures the singularity of his nation, portraying everyday life in a way that unfolds like a hyper-realistic film set. As a counterpoint to these more recent colour photographs, three portfolios of black-and-white images taken in the 1970s punctuate this visual immersion and journey through the lowlands.

'Belgium is a visually interesting place where incongruous things happen' Harry Gruyaert

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500028990
ISBN 13 
9780500028995
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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