Rites of Passage - Hardcover

Mead, Scott

 
9780903696722: Rites of Passage
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 090369672X ISBN 13: 9780903696722
Verlag: Hurtwood Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

• The fourth book on the photography of Scott Mead. Previous publications include Thoughts for My Children (Hurtwood, 2023), Equivalents (Prestel, 2022) and Above the Clouds (Prestel, 2017)

• Rites of Passage features 100 previously unseen images from Mead's archive, documenting his early adulthood in New England, USA, and shot over a five-year period between 1971 and 1976

• All of the artist's proceeds from Rites of Passage benefit Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London

Photographer Scott Mead (b.1954) revisits his formative years spent documenting New England, USA, in Rites of Passage for the first time. Shot over a five-year period between 1971 and 1976, we follow Mead through early adulthood and explore scenes of discovery, ritual, rural beauty and urban metropolis. At a junction between an American road trip and a personal visual diary, Mead’s images depict a world as it was then, shaped by political upheaval, profound civil changes and the Cold War. The cloth-bound hardback book features 100 large-format prints of Mead’s poignant photographs to be considered in a new context. Rites of Passage shows Mead with a camera always at hand and presents his delicate, often amusing and sometimes uneasy portraits alongside cityscapes, landscapes and snapshots of the lives of friends and strangers. All of the artist’s proceeds from Rites of Passage benefit Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Scott Mead was born in Washington, D.C., in 1954 and lives in London. He was a photographer for 15 years when family and career intervened in positive ways. He spent many years in investment banking, mostly setting aside his camera but not his vision. He left finance in 2003 to return to his lifelong passion. In 2018, Mead exhibited his Above the Clouds series at Hamiltons Gallery, London, accompanied by a book of the same name published by Prestel. In 2022, Prestel published his second book Equivalents, an exploration of parallels and contrasts with an introduction by Brad Leithauser.

Scott Mead was born in Washington, D.C., in 1954 and lives in London. He was a photographer for 15 years when family and career intervened in positive ways. He spent many years in investment banking, mostly setting aside his camera but not his vision. He left finance in 2003 to return to his lifelong passion. In 2018, Mead exhibited his Above the Clouds series at Hamiltons Gallery, London, accompanied by a book of the same name published by Prestel. In 2022, Prestel published his second book Equivalents, an exploration of parallels and contrasts with an introduction by Brad Leithauser.

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Photographer Scott Mead, born in 1954 in Washington, D.C., revisits his formative years spent documenting New England, USA, in Rites of Passage for the first time. Shot over a five-year period between 1971 and 1976, we follow Mead through early adulthood and explore scenes of discovery, ritual, rural beauty and urban metropolis.

At a junction between an American road trip and a personal visual diary, Mead's images depict a world as it was then, shaped by political upheaval, profound civil changes and the Cold War. The tensions embedded in these photographs resonate now amid a fraught social landscape and increasing polarisation. Recent global events gave Mead the opportunity for intense self-reflection as he delved into his photographic archive.

The clothbound hardback book features 100 large-format prints of Mead's poignant photographs to be considered in a new context. The 35mm black and white images portray life in a time of transition as the viewer's eyes are drawn into the atmospheric imagery, compositions and textures captured within them. Rites of Passage shows Mead with a camera always at hand and presents his delicate, often amusing and sometimes uneasy portraits alongside cityscapes, landscapes and snapshots of the lives of friends and strangers.

All of the artist's proceeds from Rites of Passage benefit Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.

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Verlag
Hurtwood Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
090369672X
ISBN 13 
9780903696722
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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