Robert Stivers has quickly emerged as one of the foremost contemporary photographers. In this, his second book of photographs in three years, Stivers extends, deepens, and complicates the themes of mystery and movement, sensuality and spirituality, and the search for individual identity that occupied him in his first book, Robert Stivers: Photographs (1997). In his new work, he juxtaposes the human figure with architectural images, thus pointing to the reciprocity between consciousness and a sense of place that is central ...
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Robert Stivers has quickly emerged as one of the foremost contemporary photographers. In this, his second book of photographs in three years, Stivers extends, deepens, and complicates the themes of mystery and movement, sensuality and spirituality, and the search for individual identity that occupied him in his first book, Robert Stivers: Photographs (1997). In his new work, he juxtaposes the human figure with architectural images, thus pointing to the reciprocity between consciousness and a sense of place that is central to an understanding of the self. The aesthetic throughout couples out-of-focus images with rich and subtle textures and tones. The effect is a collection of breathtaking images that are wonderfully coherent and at once haunting and mysterious, deeply spiritual, and perfectly choreographed. Figures dance around and through columns and curves of stone. In Stivers's vision, nothing is ever static; there is constant movement and continual flux, not only of the self but also of time and place. He seems to suggest that the quest for identity resides in a void of disorientation, but a void that can be redeemed by the wonderment and mystery of an unseen spiritual world. At the turn of the millennium, these images offer an antidote to the loss of faith in a postmodern world and an alternative to the over-rehearsed axiom that God is dead and there is no autonomous self. It is an extraordinary accomplishment.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. Book 110 pages. Hardcover, bound in dark gray colored cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Crisp, tight, sharp and clean condition, with a bright dustjacket encased in a Mylar sleeve. Text in English. Handsomely printed full color reproductions of the artists's seductive and sensuous photographs.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1892041332. SIGNED on the title page by Robert Stivers.; 46 full-page sepia and b/w plates. Essay by John Stauffer.; Tight, clean and crisp. In excellent condition. As New. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. Protected in a new Mylar cover. As New.; 10 X 0.75 X 12.5 inches; 112 pages; Signed by Artist.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Cloth, with dust jacket. Photographs by Robert Stivers. Essay by John Stauffer. Includes a list of plates. 112 pp. with 46 plates, beautifully printed by EBS, Verona, Italy. 12-1/4 x 9-3/4 inches. Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: "Robert Stivers has quickly emerged as one of the foremost contemporary photographers. In this, his second book of photographs in three years, Stivers extends, deepens, and complicates the themes of mystery and movement, sensuality and spirituality, and the search for individual identity that occupied him in his first book, Robert Stivers: Photographs, (1997). In his new work, he juxtaposes the human figure with architectural images, thus pointing to the reciprocity between consciousness and a sense of place that is central to an understanding of the self. The aesthetic throughout couples soft focus with rich and subtle textures and tones. The effect is a collection of breathtaking images that are wonderfully coherent and at once haunting and mysterious, deeply spiritual, and perfectly choreographed."
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Used-Very Good. Robert Stivers has quickly emerged as one of the foremost contemporary photographers. In this, his second book of photographs in three years, Stivers extends, deepens, and complicates the themes of mystery and movement, sensuality and spirituality, and the search for individual identity that occupied him in his first book, Robert Stivers: Photographs (1997). In his new work, he juxtaposes the human figure with architectural images, thus pointing to the reciprocity between consciousness and a sense of place that is central to an understanding of the self. The aesthetic throughout couples out-of-focus images with rich and subtle textures and tones. The effect is a collection of breathtaking images that are wonderfully coherent and at once haunting and mysterious, deeply spiritual, and perfectly choreographed. Figures dance around and through columns and curves of stone. In Stivers's vision, nothing is ever static; there is constant movement and continual flux, not only of the self but also of time and place. He seems to suggest that the quest for identity resides in a void of disorientation, but a void that can be redeemed by the wonderment and mystery of an unseen spiritual world. At the turn of the millennium, these images offer an antidote to the loss of faith in a postmodern world and an alternative to the over-rehearsed axiom that God is dead and there is no autonomous self. It is an extraordinary accomplishment.
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New in New jacket. First edition, first and only printing. Signed and dated in ink on the title page by Stivers. Hardcover. Cloth, with dust jacket. Photographs by Robert Stivers. Essay by John Stauffer. 112 pp. with 46 plates, beautifully printed by EBS, Verona, Italy. 12-1/4 x 9-3/4 inches. New in New dust jacket (opened only for signature). From the publisher: "Robert Stivers has quickly emerged as one of the foremost contemporary photographers. In this, his second book of photographs in three years, Stivers extends, deepens, and complicates the themes of mystery and movement, sensuality and spirituality, and the search for individual identity that occupied him in his first book, Robert Stivers: Photographs, (1997). In his new work, he juxtaposes the human figure with architectural images, thus pointing to the reciprocity between consciousness and a sense of place that is central to an understanding of the self. The aesthetic throughout couples soft focus with rich and subtle textures and tones. The effect is a collection of breathtaking images that are wonderfully coherent and at once haunting and mysterious, deeply spiritual, and perfectly choreographed." Signed by Author.
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