Publisher:
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY: Fraenkel Gallery; Danziger Gallery, 1999
Alibris ID:
16850375718
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4to. 79p. Hardcover. Very Good, slight creasing and marking on covers. Color prints throughout. Insert: poster of exhibition. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).
This book is nothing short of remarkable in terms of the magic conveyed by Susan's images. By taking large sheets of photographic paper, mounting them in a light-proof container, carefully placing them in position under water at night in streams near her studio in England's Dartmoor district, letting ambient light provide background tone and then popping a very brief flash to expose (and freeze) the patterns of the water and intervening vegetation overhead on the paper, Susan has blazed a unique trail in photography which places her at the forefront of those willing to play with and work with Nature and accept the uncertainty and the surprises of this approach rather than to control and limit what might be caught in the image.
Just as Berenice Abbott was able to bridge science and art in the extraordinary photographs she made for Physics teachers, and Edward Weston was able to convey the dynamism in Nature and in the patterns he found in Nature, so too does Susan manage to capture the magical nature of water in motion. Simultaneously moody, evocative and emotionally charged as well as crisply depicting the marvelous swirls, eddies, twists and turns of flowing water, these photographic images bridge art and science in a wonderful way.
While her work has matured and her techniques have expanded to create more complicated images in recent years, time has done nothing to dim the wonder of these images and they are just as fresh today as they were when Susan first made them. A wondrous book in every way!
