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Benevolent pleasures of sight

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"Technically, not all of Camille Solyagua's photographs are still lifes; nor do her subjects always sit still for her to gaze or gape meaningfully at their arrangement. Yet in her delicate and precise treatment of natural stuff--of tiny birds and jellyfish, of plants and wings, of feathers and vines, of avian illustrations and nocturnal skies--she accomplishes two fundamental requirements of still lifes: she prolongs the glance, thanks to photography itself, and allows it to optically savor her stilled objects; and she 'epitomizes' by creating edited and concentrated displays of natural forms and shapes, much as certain natural histories do"--From introduction.
Type
Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date
[1997]
Call number
653134
Creator
Solyagua, Camille(Opens in new tab)
ISBN
3923922566
9783923922567
Provenance
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.
Dimensions
28 cm
Associated people
Bernhard, Ruth,
Sobiezek, Robert,
Associated organizations
Nazraeli Press,
Palace Press International,
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