Hiroshi Sugimoto's images freeze time and space, revealing the workings of our own vision, slowing down the act of perception long enough that it becomes a palpable component of his work.a body of work that he continues to this day, photographing views of the sea from land, traveling around the world to make pictures that, despite their vastly different geographic origins, seem at first to be the same, with only slight variations. Their captions, however, confirm that each is of a different body of water: Caspian, Ligurian, Black. Ever the romantic enthusisast of the photographic medium, the seascape series are testament to his ardor. While they are deeply 'photographic' they are also deeply metaphysical and existential documents. As a form and cultural construct they exist as the ultimate distilling of the form of photographic landscape. Perhaps this is a clue as to the intent of the artist. They are explorations of spiritual and physical boundary as much as an exploration of the phen

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

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Individual Artists

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Toba Khedoori (Focus Series)

Vidler, Anthony

Smith, Elizabeth A.

Edited by Maya Ishiwata and Theresa Luisotti.

Barbara Kasten, 1986-1990

Research Art Media

Michael Kenna crafts an eloquent eulogy for the industrial age in 50 photographs of the Ford Motor Company's Rouge River plant near Detroit. His dramatic sense of light and shadow gives these photos hallucinatory beauty; smoke and fumes curling from smokestacks are as evocative as fog shrouding the bridges of Paris or Prague. Kenna brings a romantic, even pastoral sensibility to architectural history, particularly to landmarks that are on the verge of redemption or extinction. Introduction and captions by Ford historian Lee R. Kollins explain the auto manufacturing process with engrossing precision.

The Rouge

Second Edition 1999 revised and expanded. This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a hardcover book published by RAM Publications with a dust jacket and a First Edition of 1997 and a Second Edition 1999 revised and expanded. Bound by Roswell Bookbinding in Brillianta Book Club. Michael Kenna's stunning landscapes, dreamworks of light and shadow, carry the viewer into the elegant world of French 16th-century garden designer Andre Le Notre, the genius behind the garden at Versailles. This second edition includes the original 40 quadratone plates plus an additional 20 images. A visual feast for the lover of both photography and the formal garden. The author, Eric T. Haskell is Professor of French Studies and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Scripps College where he is also Director of the Clark Humanities Museum. He received his Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of California, Irvine. He also studied Art History and Architecture in the graduate program at UCI and at the École du Louvre in Paris. Le Nôtre's Gardens, accompanied an exhibition he curated at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

Le Notre's Gardens

Kenna, Michael

Haskell, Eric T.

From the publisher: "As a young photographer, Lewis Baltz became fascinated by the stark, sometimes repellent, manmade landscapes fast replacing the mostly agrarian Southern California. The photos he made became a portfolio, New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, and when they were first published in 1974, Baltz was hailed as the father of a new way of thinking which resonated with photographers around the world. The Topographic movement unflinchingly details the landscape of construction sites and suburban sprawl, turning utilitarian, anti-artistic sites into works of strange, minimalist beauty."

The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California

Travel

Lewis Baltz

United States

In this compelling new body of work, released for the first time in print, Henry Wessel wanders southern California's suburban streets in the dead of the night. These portraits of anonymous dwellings, cloaked in shadows or bathed in moonlight, recall the mysterious images of film noir. Essays by film historian Claudine Ise and David Wing. Dimension: 9 x 9 inches, Exhibition Catalog, 25 duotone reproductions.

Night Walk

Wessel, Henry

From the time she could pick up a crayon, painter/sculptor Rita Blitt has never ceased to make art. This elegant publication chronicles her progression from powerfully flowing black line paintings to morphic pastel drawings and then to 60-foot abstract sculptures. Ironically, when Blitt first encountered abstract expressionism she questioned the new art form; however, she eventually embraced it, crafting drawings, paintings and monumental sculptures to international acclaim. Six decades of evolution in an important artist's work. Dimension: 8 x 7½ inches, 220 full color reproductions.

Rita Blitt : The Passionate Gesture

Blitt, Rita

Drawing

ARCHIVE's spoken-word CD features four seances with the long-departed Italian aristocrat Virginia Versasis, aka the Countess of Castiglione. Until recently the cache of portraits taken by her lover in the mid-1800s were completely unknown. Once found, they have become noted as the first fashion images in the history of photography. These recorded seances finally give the Countess a chance to begin correcting her record from the Great Beyond!

Conversations With the Countess of Castiglione

Walsh, Ann

Kubick, Chris

Biographies & Memoirs

This second volume in ARCHIVE's Art After Death series features a spirited dialog with the outspoken and brilliant 20th-century French artist Yves Klein. The artist is contacted through several medium-directed seances. A truly informative and hilarious experience!

Yves Klein Speaks: Art After Death

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