Waters of Our Time, The - Hardcover

Thomas Roma; Giancarlo Roma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576877965 ISBN 13: 9781576877968

Publisher: POWERHOUSE BOOKS, 2016

Synopsis

A retrospective of sorts, the book contains 142 of Roma's photographs spanning most of his career, beginning on the cover with a picture taken from his first roll of film shot in 1972, and a fictional text by Giancarlo T. Roma, written as a first-person narrative recollection in the voice of an older woman who has spent her life in Brooklyn. The written story begins on the book's cover and is interwoven with the photographs, lending a reflective quality to the interplay between them.

About this title

Review:

"A sweeping and tender retrospective not only of Roma's expansive career, but of Brooklyn, NY, his hometown and source of decades of photographic inspiration."
--TIME Magazine's LightBox

"One of the most beautifully made books of photography I have ever seen."
--Vice

"The book is irrefutably one of the most rewarding reads I've ever had in one sitting."
--aCurator

Named one of photo-eye's best photo books of the year.

About the Author:

Thomas Roma is a two-time recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships (1982 and 1991) and a New York State Council for the Arts Fellowship (1973). Roma's work has appeared in one-person and group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying books at The Museum of Modern Art, NY and the International Center of Photography. He has published twelve monographs including: Enduring Justice (powerHouse Books, 2001) with an introduction by Norman Mailer, On Three Pillars (powerHouse Books, 2008) with text by Phillip Lopate, and his 2010 powerHouse Books publication Dear Knights and Dark Horses with an introduction by Alec Wilkinson. He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and in 1996 became the Director of the Photography Program at Columbia University School of the Arts where he is a Professor of Art. Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife Anna.

Giancarlo Roma is a 2013 graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University in the City of New York with a degree in English and African American Studies. He is a freelance writer and coauthor of Show & Tell (powerHouse Books, 2002) as well as an avid chess and guitar player.

About this edition

• Publisher: POWERHOUSE BOOKS
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1576877965
• ISBN 13: 9781576877968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 98