Stranger Passing - Rilegato

Nickel, Douglas R.; Frazier, Ian

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 3869304995 ISBN 13: 9783869304991

Casa editrice: Steidl, 2012

Riassunto

Over a period of fifteen years Joel Sternfeld travelled across America and took portrait photographs that form in Douglas R. Nickel's words an "intelligent, unscientific, interpretive sampling of what Americans looked like at the century's end." Unlike historical portraits which represent significant people in staged surroundings, Sternfeld's subjects are uncannily "normal": a banker having an evening meal, a teenager collecting shopping carts in a parking lot, a homeless man holding his bedding. Using August Sander's classic photograph of three peasants on their way to a dance as a starting point, Sternfeld employed a conceptual strategy that amounts to a new theory of the portrait, which might be termed "The Circumstantial Portrait". What happens when we encounter the other in the mist of a circumstance? What presumptions, if any, are valid? What, if anything, can be known of the other from a photographic portrait?

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• Editore: Steidl
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3869304995
• ISBN 13: 9783869304991
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 132