Landscape and Industry: Michael Collins - Hardcover

Michael Collins

 
9781907893575: Landscape and Industry: Michael Collins
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1907893571 ISBN 13: 9781907893575
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

'Landscape and Industry' is both a set of photographs covering a range of landscapes and industries, and an exploration of how contemporary art can draw on the influences of early industrial 'record picture' photography and 19th century & Naturalist landscape painting. Photographed on large format in a matter of fact aesthetic, the subjects include Battersea Power Station, Birmingham car factories, Pennsylvanian coal mines, cityscapes of London, New York and Paris, the Bedford brickworks and the industrial remains on the Hoo Peninsula. As Michael Collins writes in the introductory essay: 'The matter of fact nature of photography is its eloquence. Its creativity comes not from an a priori imagining, but a patient observation, and from that close reading, the photograph exposes an unlimited visual dimension. It is the inclusion of the unsolicited, unimagined and unwelcome that make the photograph feel so realistic and authentic. The photographic truth isn't stranger than fiction, it's more fascinating - At its prime, it is the visual art par excellence because it is wholly about looking. There is no mark making. Everything is observed.'

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About the Author

Michael Collins' photography has been exhibited at the Barbican Art Gallery, the Guildhall Art Gallery, RIBA, ffotogallery, City Hall (London), The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, and other venues in England and the USA. He is represented by the Janet Borden Gallery, New York.

From the Back Cover

'Landscape and Industry' is both a set of photographs covering a range of landscapes and industries, and an exploration of how contemporary art can draw on the influences of early industrial 'record picture' photography and 19th century & Naturalist landscape painting. Photographed on large format in a matter of fact aesthetic, the subjects include Battersea Power Station, Birmingham car factories, Pennsylvanian coal mines, cityscapes of London, New York and Paris, the Bedford brickworks and the industrial remains on the Hoo Peninsula. As Michael Collins writes in the introductory essay: 'The matter of fact nature of photography is its eloquence. Its creativity comes not from an a priori imagining, but a patient observation, and from that close reading, the photograph exposes an unlimited visual dimension. It is the inclusion of the unsolicited, unimagined and unwelcome that make the photograph feel so realistic and authentic. The photographic truth isn't stranger than fiction, it's more fascinating - At its prime, it is the visual art par excellence because it is wholly about looking. There is no mark making. Everything is observed.'

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Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1907893571
ISBN 13 
9781907893575
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144