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Hardcover, 4to., Unpaginated. Light scuffing to dustjacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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- Title
- A Kind of Rapture
- Author
- Robert Bergman
- Publisher
- Pantheon, New York
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067944257X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679442578
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
—Toni Morrison, Winner of the Nobel Prize
For more than ten years, Robert Bergman—a brilliant artist who has purposefully withheld himself from the mainstream—traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. Even as he used a simple 35-mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting, his was a monumental, Whitmanesque project: to document the physical appearance and spirit of Americans, and to gauge the climate of our times. Bergman’s first two solo exhibitions were at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and PS1 MOMA.
“An underground legend for decades… A moving body of work, exhibiting an exceptional ability to reveal the singular nature of each of his subjects and their common humanity.”
—Earl A. Powell, Director, National Gallery of Art
“The portraits… are unlike any others in the history of photography. The faces in Robert Bergman’s photographs are all so penetrating that one must spend a good deal of time looking at them to begin to realize their scope. Finally, it is difficult to identify a human emotion that is not revealed in them… Bergman is a great portraitist.”
—David Levi Strauss, Chair, Graduate Program in Art Writing, School of Visual Arts
“Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Gary Winogrand, and William Eggleston… [Bergman] is certainly in their league.”
—John Yau, Poet and Critic
“Unprecedented portraits… which transcend boundaries between painting and photography.”
—Glenn Lowry, Director, The Museum of Modern Art
“We are in the presence of the overwhelmingly human… and there is no escape.”
—Margo Jefferson, The New York Times
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About the Author
"Every now and then, the art world offers up an unlikely story, and Robert Bergman's is one of them. He was born in New Orleans and raised mostly in Minneapolis. He began taking and developing snapshots at age 6, and save for a few teenage years he has strived to be a great photographer-artist ever since. But he has remained an out-of-step one, isolated from contemporary tastes, a cult figure to the few who have seen his work in person or in a 1998 book. The 65-year-old photographer went his own way over the past four decades, never selling a work until two years ago, but he nevertheless is about to burst onto the scene with two museum exhibitions, and next month he will have his first show at a commercial gallery, Yossi Milo in Chelsea, New York City."
—Judith H. Dobrzynski, The Wall Street Journal
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