Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio. His photographs sometimes consist of close-up shots of his own paintings, wherein he zooms in on the material reality of his richly painted surfaces and transforms their colors and shapes into a different abstract configuration. More often, Scully goes from recognizable objects in the larger world to subjective ...
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Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio. His photographs sometimes consist of close-up shots of his own paintings, wherein he zooms in on the material reality of his richly painted surfaces and transforms their colors and shapes into a different abstract configuration. More often, Scully goes from recognizable objects in the larger world to subjective impressions of them. Snapshots of fagades, windows, and doors are never straightforward recordings of architectural elements. By depicting fading walls, cracked surfaces, rough edges, and the deep shadows created by them, these images capture beauty in decay, and evoke the basic contradiction of nature and life: solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. As metaphors of physical and mental conditions, the photographs capture the memories, feelings, and thoughts connected to the experience of that reality. It is precisely this continuing interchange of the recognizable and abstract worlds, the visible and the invisible, that empowers Scully's works in all media.
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Near Fine Condition in Fine jacket. 9783882439618. Individual Photographers. Near Fine/Fine 1st ed 2004 Steidl hardback, unclipped DJ, bright and unmarked. Front and rear end-paper pages show a little looseness from Size: 228\nx 333\nx 25mm. 208 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; Individual Photographers; ISBN: 3882439610. ISBN/EAN: 9783882439618. Dewey Code: 779.092. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 092000.
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Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. 9783882439618. Individual Photographers. VG/VG 1st ed 2004 landscape format Steidl hardback, unclipped DJ, profusely illustrated. Light surface rub to jacket edges, a little superficial loosening of binding glue to top rear of binding hinge, white label covering owner name to fly-leaf corner otherwise VG and bright, unmarked otherwise. Size: 228\nx 333\nx 25mm. 220 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; Individual Photographers; ISBN: 3882439610. ISBN/EAN: 9783882439618. Dewey Code: 779.092. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 084382.
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VG/VG. Reddish-brown cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; 207 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Includes essays by Arthur C. Danto and Mia Fineman, as well as interview with Scully by Edward Lucie-Smith. Gorgeous plates.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Hardbound in dust jacket. 1st edition. Wear to edges of dust jacket, otherwise very good. [ Heavy-Please contact for overseas shipping quote ]