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Description: "Masao Yamamoto's gorgeous new monograph, 'é', provides an ideal forum for his exquisite installations of intimate, dreamlike photographs. Working from a Zen philosophy of 'emptiness,' Yamamoto makes images that are essentially vignettes of nature and our intersection with it, ruminating over the passage of time and memory"--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2005]
Call number: 653297
Creator: Yamamoto, Masao (1957-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590051475; 9781590051474
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Nakazora

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"Masao Yamamoto has designed a scroll measuring over eighteen feet long, printed in process color on uncoated Japanese stock. The timelessness of Yamamoto's imagery is beautifully echoed in scroll format. A striking marriage of traditional and hi-tech materials and production techniques, Nakazora redefines the term 'artists' book'"--Publisher's description.

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From the ground up

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These are not tragic pictures. They do not condemn consumer culture or show the limitations or emptiness of globalization. They show, rather, the vigorous, touching and continuing permutation of an ideal, that of home.

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Elegies of manumission

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"Max de Esteban's gorgeous new monograph brings together all three parts of his stunningly beautiful 'Elegies of Manumission' series. Making use of a portraiture as a conceptual tool, de Esteban's portraits, or architectural quality and extraordinary craftsmanship, build a narrative beyond the anecdotal and push the boundaries of contemporary portraiture. Open to many interpretations, 'Elegies of Manumission' questions the construction of identity of the individual subjects portrayed"--Publisher's description.

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Aurora

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"Perhaps the most recognized and widely collected photographer of botanical studies working today, Ron van Dongen's recent shift to color work was documented in our previous monograph, 'Effusus', which was published in 2005 and has since sold out. We are pleased to announce his follow-up book, 'Aurora', presenting 33 gorgeous new plates printed--as with all of his Nazraeli Press monographs--in an oversized format bound in Japanese cloth. This new work adds to the Dutch photographer's long and skilled study of flora in its many incarnations"--Publisher's description.

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Lana : photographs made of a single locale : a book

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"Terri Weifenbach has received international acclaim for her gorgeous, vividly colored landscape photographs--and deservedly so. She has been described as 'the Emily Dickinson of photography' and the work in this new book can only strengthen her reputation as a truly original force in contemporary art. Weifenbach creates images based on seemingly unexceptional pastoral scenes that become quite extraordinary through her masterful presentation of their subject matter. Sometimes a whole picture is shot out of focus, or perhaps just one detail--a leaf, a bud, a blade of grass--is sharply focused, commanding attention, while the rest gently recedes into a soft and mellow blur. The results are breathtaking as, dream-like and entrancing, they evoke gentle memories of hazy summer days. The images for this, the artist's third monograph, were made in Lana, a small Italian village nestling in the mountainous South Tyrol"--Publisher's description.

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Ver sacrum

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"The finest Viennese Art Nouveau periodical, and one of the most elegant of all periodicals, was 'Ver sacrum', the organ of the Viennese Secession. It was not a record of decorative art and architecture but [was more] ... a miscellany of literature, illustration and graphic design. ... [it was] a periodical with a complex message of design, a publication which would be covetable for its own sake as well as for its contents. ... Only in a periodical like 'Ver sacrum', that exquisite product of the Viennese Secession, is [this ideal] fully realised. Here each issue has been thought out afresh. Cover design, Jugendstil borders and decorations, type-face, the fastidious colour, the placing of each lithograph or woodcut, all serve together in a daring unity of style. Refined aestheticism is a dangerous gane to play, but here it is kept under perfect control and results in a classic of periodical design."--Extracts from 'The Art Press : two centuries of art magazines' / edited by Trevor Fawcett and Clive Philpott (London : The Art Book Company, [1976].

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