Finding Bones - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868287795 ISBN 13: 9783868287790

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, 2018

Synopsis

Finding Bones introduces a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It's an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970s was an island of its own creation: a mixture of surf, sea, and concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural climate, it challenged assumptions of the definition of art. Crawford chooses his backgrounds with a sense of austerity as a means for introducing these hard-edged shapes and using them as the building blocks for his own language.

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About the Author

Grey Crawford is a Los Angeles based fine art and architecture photographer.

Timothy Persons is the founder and director of Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, where he lives and works. He is also adjunct Professor at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland.

Lyle Rexer is a writer; critic; curator; columnist, on photography. His publications include The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography; Jonathan Lerman: The Drawings of An Artist with Autism; How to Look At Outsider Art; Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes; Raw Vision; Art in America; Aperture; The New York Times; Modern Painters; Parkett; Tate. He is teaching at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

From the Back Cover

Finding Bones is a book introducing a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey Crawford. It’s an anthology of photographs that embody the creative spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the time. Southern California in the early 1970’s was an island of its own creation. A mixture of surf and sea, concrete highways winding around an ever-changing cultural climate that was challenging our assumptions of what art is. Crawford chooses his selected backgrounds with a sense of austerity as a means for introducing these hard edge shapes and using them as the building blocks for his own language.
The thirty photographs are silver vintage prints, using Crawford’s hand masking technique in the darkroom to create a new synthesis of imagery and the abstract. (From the forword by Timothy Persons)

Edition details

• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3868287795
• ISBN 13: 9783868287790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72