Verlag: Damiani, Bologna, 2014
ISBN 10: 8862083645 ISBN 13: 9788862083645
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
Signiert
hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Jessica Todd Harper (illustrator). Illustrated with color photographs. Oblong 4to, pictorial boards. Bologna: Damiani, (2014). A near fine copy. Inscribed by Harper on title page.
Verlag: Damiani Sep 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 8862087721 ISBN 13: 9788862087728
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Fotografie
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A 'wrong' family moment that is full of truth.' Like seventeenth century Dutch painters who made otherwise ordinary interior scenes appear charged with meaning, Jessica Todd Harper looks for the worth in everyday moments. The characters in her imagery are the people around her- her friends, herself, family- but it is not so much they who are important as the way in which they are organized and lit. A woman helping her child practice the piano is not a particularly sacred moment but as in a Vermeer painting, the way the composition and lighting influence the content suggests that perhaps it is. Most of the time everyday scenes don't mean anything to us- in fact, it is a modern truism that we seek to be distracted from them. We scroll through our phones rather than be alone with our thoughts, our selves or even our families. This collection of photographs makes use of what is right in front of me, what is here, a place that many of us came to contemplate especially during the pandemic. Beauty, goodness and truth can reveal themselves in daily life, much like in Kant's notion of the Sublime or simply in the Dutch paintings of everyday domestic scenes that are somehow lit up with purport. Our unexamined or even boring surroundings can sometimes be illuminating.
Verlag: Damiani, 2022
ISBN 10: 8862087721 ISBN 13: 9788862087728
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Gebunden. Zustand: New. Über den AutorrnrnPhotographer Jessica Todd Harper uses portraiture to explore the subtle tensions within daily family interactions and the complexity of human relationships. Her work is grounded in art historical tradition, but with a psyc.
Verlag: Damiani, Bologna, 2008
ISBN 10: 8862080166 ISBN 13: 9788862080163
Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
Erstausgabe
First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Harper's first monograph. Text in English and Italian and with a foreword by Larry Fink and an interview of Harper by Sarah Anne McNear. A collection of dramatic and intimate color photographs all taken in domestic settings. A fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap slit open to verify edition.
Verlag: Damiani editore, Bologna, 2008
ISBN 10: 8862080166 ISBN 13: 9788862080163
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine condition. First edition. Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated. Original boards illustrated with color photographs, blakc, yellow and white lettering on covers, black and white on spine. Color frontispiece photograph. Signed Jessica Todd Harper on title page. "These photographs show the questioning of the photographer, whi in so manyself-portraits, and in portraits of others, is contemplating identity. And not just identity framed within relationships to others (which is very much present and important), but also identity in terms of something more eternal. There is and underlying provocation within each image -and pardon me for the awkwardness of phrasing - but it seems to be: What is the meaning of life?" (Larry Fink). Contains biographies at rear.