Scott a O Essay (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 95 pages, chiefly illustrations; 32 x 39 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery Madison, New York, September 23 to October 30, 2010. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "While visiting Rome, world-renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson was invited to tour the legendary film studio Cinecitt , where directors such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini shot their iconic works. He found the elaborate film sets fallen into ruin and, captivated by their beauty, chose them as the subject of his next body of work.Although his earlier series were characterised by large production crews, custom-built soundstages and hired actors, Crewdson returned to Rome with only a small team to create the haunting black-and-white portraits of deteriorating buildings and deserted streets that are flawlessly reproduced in this book. Admirers of Crewdson's work will find these new photographs are a bold departure, which yet convey the dramatic subtext and charged emotions that characterise his earlier works." - Publisher. Size: Oblong. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Sept 2010 very oversize hardcover 1st edition 1st printing with full number line. Inevitable light sunning on edge of dj and cover, hint of rubbing on dj, else fine . VERY oversize book - substantial extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope.…

First edition First printing. An essay by A. O. Scott. The photographer was invited to tour the back lot of the legendary Italian studio Cinecitta, where directors Fellini and Rossellini shot their iconic works. Now abandoned, this elaborate and lush retrospective in full page color results in a series of haunting black and white portraits of deteriorating buildings and deserted streets. The publisher has cut no corners at allowing this full representation. Fine and bright in very close to fine pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. New and bright all around, gift quality.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Landscape elephant folio size (40 cm x 30 cm) in blind embossed black cloth covered boards, 95pp on thick art paper, 41 finely printed full page b/w photos taken in Rome . [CONDITION: A well preserved NEW unmarked copy in a NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy of the less common first printing ] . To see more of our Photo books type DbbPHOTO in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Landscape folio; hardcover, with blind-stamped spine and upper board title and black endpapers; 96pp. with many monochrome photographic illustrations. Very minor wear. Dustwrapper very lightly rubbed. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Known for capturing the alienation and anxiety of small-town America in series such as 'Beneath the Roses', Crewdson photographed 'Sanctuary' at the Cinecitta studios, Rome, producing a body of work outside of the US for the first time. When Crewdson first visited Cinecitta he found the labyrinthine lots of the legendary studio devoid of human presence, in a state suspended between grandeur and ruin. The site was haunted by the architectural ghosts of ancient Rome, historical New York, and medieval Italy, among other settings and places, all remnants of past productions. Abandoned by the actors and crews that brought the sets to life, each building and street was eerily quiet, a network of ephemeral facades and dead ends that was so evocative it scarcely needed the artist's intervention. 'In these pictures', comments Crewdson, 'I draw upon the inherent quietness and uncanny aspects of the empty sets.' Crewdson has in previous series used locations and characters in order to create pictures charged with narrative portent, but for 'Sanctuary' Crewdson decided to make the film sets themselves the subject of the photographs. Despite this change of direction, the artist's vision persists: 'As with much of my work', suggests Crewdson, 'I looked at the blurred lines between reality and fiction, nature and artifice, and beauty and decay.' A photograph might depict what appears to be the corner of a Roman structure, topped by the statue of a proud emperor, and yet a network of scaffolding supports this supposedly timeless ruin. In another picture, a series of large wooden buildings stretches across the horizon like the background to a cartoon western, yet they are all marked by gaping holes, as if an entire townscape were about to collapse. Nature seems to overcome the sets in some pictures, with trees, vines and weeds engulfing the majestic vistas and brittle buildings. The cool monochrome and intimate scale of the prints lend the pictures an ageless and elegiac intensity, and yet in these empty studio lots Crewdson has found a poignant symbol of our persistent longing for permanence." - White Cube.…