Joe: By Hiroshi Sugimoto - Rilegato

Foer, Jonathan Safran

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ISBN 10: 3791336894 ISBN 13: 9783791336893

Casa editrice: Prestel Pub, 2006

Riassunto

A leading photographer, bestselling author and prize-winning designer lend their visions and voices to this unique collaboration. When renowned Hiroshi Sugimoto was invited to photograph the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, his attention immediately focused on an immense steel sculpture, Richard Serra's Joe, one of the artist's torqued spirals, which occupies a small courtyard of the museum. Joe allows viewers to walk in through a narrow passage between towering, sloping walls. The path leads to a surprising central space from which only the curving steel walls and the sky are visible. Combining extremely soft light and blurred darkness, Sugimoto's pictures in this book capture the elliptical nature of Serra's piece. His images are complemented by the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, whose affecting prose poem - about an "average Joe" experiencing the circular passage of time - echoes, without directly referencing, Serra's sculpture. Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, this beautiful, large-format book features tritone reproductions printed on luxurious uncoated stock. The result is an eloquent and visually arresting commentary on time, impermanence, and memory.

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L'autore:

Jonathan Safran Foer, geboren 1977, studierte in Princeton Philosophie. Er lebt und arbeitet in New York. Sein erster Roman Alles ist erleuchtet machte ihn mit einem Schlag bekannt. Im September 2005 wurde nach einem Libretto von Jonathan Safran Foer die Oper Seven Attempted Escapes from Silence in der Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin uraufgeführt. Die Verfilmung von Alles ist erleuchtet (Regie: Liev Schreiber) kam mit Elijah Wood in der Hauptrolle im August 2005 in den USA in die Kinos.

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• Editore: Prestel Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3791336894
• ISBN 13: 9783791336893
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 87