The Water's Edge: Photographs by Sally Gall [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST]

Salter, James

ISBN 10: 0811808483 / ISBN 13: 9780811808484

Published by Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco CA, 1995

About this Item

69 pages 37 duo-tone photographs. [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST] Inscribed by the artist to the previous owners on the title page. Minor rubbing and wear to the jacket now protected with a Mylar cover. First Edition. List of Titles.

Seller Inventory # 028763

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Water's Edge: Photographs by Sally Gall [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST]
• Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco CA
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811808483
• ISBN 13: 9780811808484
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition
• Signed: Inscribed by the Artist
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

A lone bather drifts placidly in a crystalline pool. A field of sunflowers bows beneath a sky threatening rain. A long, gleaming wave curves across the surface of a dark lake. At water's edge, the sensuality of immersion, the tactility of water, and the transparency of air combine visually to create an otherworldly terrain, an eerie paradise where nature and dreams meet.
Superb compositions that capture and enhance the ever-changing play of light, water, and land, these ethereal images by photographer Sally Gall are at once ominous and serene, disturbing and reassuring. Suddenly we are made aware of the unconscious that lies just below the unrippled veneer, a storehouse of repressed desires - nature empowered with a soul.
In an eloquent introduction, writer James Salter explores the relationship between the photographer and her subject, as well as the mystery, the longing, and the trepidation that these photographs inevitably conjure up for the viewer.