Priola's evocotive photographs capture the paradise of everyday life with a reverence usually reserved for portraiture. A puff of smoke, bronzed baby shoes, a mended dish-towel -- such seemingly ordinary things take on monumental presence before Priola's lens. The ephemeral, the disparate, the opaque, and the invisible currents which flow beneath the surface of what's seen, are what preoccupies these impeccably crafted images. Priola, whose work is represented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of ...
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Priola's evocotive photographs capture the paradise of everyday life with a reverence usually reserved for portraiture. A puff of smoke, bronzed baby shoes, a mended dish-towel -- such seemingly ordinary things take on monumental presence before Priola's lens. The ephemeral, the disparate, the opaque, and the invisible currents which flow beneath the surface of what's seen, are what preoccupies these impeccably crafted images. Priola, whose work is represented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and elsewhere, is an artist ultimately concerned with capturing the signature of time.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition (so stated). 4to. Foreword by Andy Grundberg. Essay by Rebecca Solmit. Illustrated with 74 b/w and tinted photographs. Dust jacket (unclipped). Fine, fresh. 127 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
