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An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture - Hardcover

Gossage, John

 
9783969995266: An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3969995264 ISBN 13: 9783969995266
Verlag: Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture John Gossage considers the changes objects (sculptures) undergo when they are photographed. His images transform these objects rather than transcribe them, altering their condition of being. For Gossage, to photograph is to ask one thing to become another kind of thing. Indeed, does a sculpture always need a pedestal or isolation to not just be another thing in the world? Whether a pile of archive folders, a dirty beaker, a heap of baseball caps, a plank of wood or a tuft of grass, he photographs these objects against the same background of white paper, their shadows often taking on as much presence as their concrete forms. With so much of the objects unclear (their volume, scale and weight, their three-dimensionality), and each having lost its original purpose or being about to die, how much has Gossage actually saved in his photographs: only his intentions? Is a good photograph always better than what it pictures-and how? This book is a dictionary because it describes the sculptures rather than being the sculptures: as every photograph does with everything.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in 1946 on Staten Island, New York, John Gossage has, more than most contemporary photographers, become renowned for his intellectually engaging, subversive and exceptionally crafted artist books and other publications. In them Gossage utilizes under-recognized elements of the urban environment-abandoned patches of land, refuse and detritus, barbed wire, graffiti and more-to explore themes as disparate as surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power. "Gossage is always about the luxuriance of what goes unnoticed, what goes unseen until his pictures call your attention to it," wrote Gus Blaisdell. Steidl has published Gossage's The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler (2010), Looking up Ben James - A Fable (2018), Should Nature Change (2019), Jack Wilson's Waltz (2019) and The Nicknames of Citizens (2020).

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Verlag
Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3969995264
ISBN 13 
9783969995266
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
120
Kontakt zum Hersteller
mail@steidl.de
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