Aperture is delighted to reissue Richard Misrach's highly acclaimed publication, Golden Gate . The photographs for Golden Gate were made over a three-year period from a single vantage point on the artist's front porch, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Photographed at all times of day and night, in every season, the pictures reveal an astonishing range of changing weather, light and color. The rigorous execution of a simple premise brings a fresh appreciation to this famous western vista. Misrach's photographs are ...
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Aperture is delighted to reissue Richard Misrach's highly acclaimed publication, Golden Gate . The photographs for Golden Gate were made over a three-year period from a single vantage point on the artist's front porch, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Photographed at all times of day and night, in every season, the pictures reveal an astonishing range of changing weather, light and color. The rigorous execution of a simple premise brings a fresh appreciation to this famous western vista. Misrach's photographs are illuminated by important essays by noted art historian T.J. Clark and geographer Richard Walker. Geoff Dyer writes of the work: "We are in the presence of that uniquely photographic and uniquely American phenomenon: the documentary sublime. [ Golden Gate ] takes you, metaphorically and literally, as far west as you can get. Just as Frederic Edwin Church's colossal "Niagara" (1857) still surpasses the iconic familiarity of the location, so Misrach's pictures make us see an overphotographed subject in a new light; literally. But the light that shrouds, frames, drenches and (always) dwarfs the bridge is also historical. It is as if the sky of every one of the paintings on show at Tate Britain has, at some point, ended up in the Bay Area... Church's rainbow even turns up in one of them. All--even the ones that are completely abstract, just air, color, light--attest to a verifiable truth: at that moment it really looked like this. We have arrived at a vision of the sublime that is literal and absolute. It is impossible to go any further."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Bright, crisp, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Tight binding, solid gray boards with sharp corners, blind-stamped lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 2200grams, ISBN: 9781931788519.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. (MISRACH, RICHARD). Misrach, Richard, T.J. Clark & Richard Walker. RICHARD MISRACH: GOLDEN GATE-SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2005. First Edition Thus. Oblong Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 164pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Elsa Kendall. "In 1997, Richard Misrach began a three year project photographing the Golden Gate Bridge at all times of day and night, in every season, from a single vantage point on his front porch. Within this simple framework, in which the subject and its framing remain fixed in every photograph, an alchemy occurs. An astonishing range of atmosphere, light, and color unfolds, bringing fresh revelation and interpretation to a familiar view-a unique and beautiful photographic meditation on place and time. This special album commemorates one of the most iconic and lasting symbols of American progress and ingenuity." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2005 Aperture first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Richard Misrach" in black ink on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight-we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-931788-51-0 Inventory Number: 027372.
