Love and Desire: Photoworks - Softcover

William A. Ewing

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9780500281710: Love and Desire: Photoworks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500281718 ISBN 13: 9780500281710

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999

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Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Love and Desire is On the sequel to William A. Ewing's photography collection The Body Here. the art critic and curator surveys 150 years of photographic history. exploring how the camera has been used to express the elusive ideas. thoughts. and sentiments related to the most turbulent of human emotions.These photographs capture the group adulation of a public icon and the showgirl's seduction of her audience. a man proudly posing with his two wives as well as the innocent sensuality of a child clutching his mother's east. Here are images by many of the great names in photography. including Man Ray. Robert Mapplethorpe. Nan Goldin. Helmut Newton . Sally Mann. assai. and Julia Margaret Cameron. Contents: Introductionp. 12Bondsp. 50Iconsp. 96Observa...

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"All photographs are, at some level, about love, and all photographs are triggered, to varying degrees, by desire" writes William A. Ewing in the introduction to Love & Desire, the exquisite follow-up to his hugely successful The Body .

Ewing draws his collection from a large range of genres--while the book does have its fair share of erotic images, attention also extends to wider renditions of love--such as parental affection and friendship (in the chapter "Bonds") and romantic fixation("Icons" and "Reveries"). From the saucy daguerreotypes of the 19th century to the sassy sex-as- fashion prints of the 1980s and 90s, there's something in Love & Desire's 331 photographs (mostly in stylish black-and white) to tickle everyone's fancy.

The representation of photographers is similarly varied--the realism of Cartier Bresson and the pale nudes of Man Ray are here, as is the overt wit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Mario Testino, snapper of the stars. Enticingly prefaced with an informative essay by Ewing, tracing the history of nude photography from its early anxious beginnings in the 19th century to its confident flourish at the end of the 20th, this is a beautiful and portable hommage to the delights of all aspects of love and desire. Heavenly bodies indeed. --Catherine Taylor

Synopsis:

A sequel to "The Body", this volume contains over 300 images, discovered during a lifetime's discriminating research into a century and a half of photography. They represent love and desire in all its many forms: the love of parents for their children and vice versa; the love between men and women; between men; between women. There is forbidden love. There is love as a saleable commodity and love as a symbol of absolute generosity. There is love of the body and love of the divine. Sex, affection, adoration, adulation; all these words have their visual equivalents in these images.

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