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The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum

Door Robert Redfort e.a.

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#370321-MC20
Titel	The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum
Auteur	Redfort, Robert & John Perlin
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Millerton, NY : Aperture Foundation
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0893814989
ISBN13	9780893814984
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in colour and b/w, folio.
Samenvatting	The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum is the first major retrospective of a world-renowned landscape photographer whose artistry is equalled only by his commitment to the environment. To activist photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum, art and advocacy go hand in hand. Whether depicting the rugged grandeur of the American countryside or the mournful beauty of virgin wilderness violated by progress, his landscapes reject sentimentality. Instead, they document his deep respect and compassion for our irreplaceable natural resources. Ketchum was the only United States artist selected for a one-man exhibition at the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio. He has received the United Nations Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award for his photographs of deforestation, pollution, and m... (Lees verder)ismanagement of public lands. Honored with the Sierra Club's coveted Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, he currently serves as the Curator of Photography for the National Parks Foundation in Washington, D. C. His book The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest was instrumental in educating government officials and the public about the environmental degradation of the Alaskan rain forest and helped enact the Timber Reform Act. Ketchum's experience of landscape as environment - both in the ecological sense and as the aggregate of circumstances and conditions that confront the outdoor photographer - is as varied and unique as his titles suggest. His first series, "Twilight", begun in 1972, deals with cliche subjects such as fall foliage and scenic views. Here, Ketchum introduces a new hierarchy where pure color is the subject of the image. "Winters: 1970-1980" consists of black-and-whitephotographs of white-on-white environments. The images are vaporous, ghostly and haiku-like. "Order from Chaos", large-size photographs in overwhelmingly brilliant colors, marks the beginning of Ketchum's environmental work. The Hudson River and the Highlands, The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest, and Overlooked in America: The Success and Failure of Federal Land Management document the landscape nonabstractly, tending toward description as they attempt to define a sense of place. By awakening us to often-ignored settings, Ketchum immortalizes the obscure rather than the iconographic. In his new series, "Planetary Graffiti" and "Stoned Immaculate", Ketchum completes the cycle that includes "Winters: 1970-1980" and "Order from Chaos". "Planetary Graffiti" consists of black-and-white aerial photographs made with experimental Polaroid film that produces instant black-and-white slide positives; Ketchum attempts to depict man-made grid forms intersecting with the larger organic forms and shapes of the planet. Entirely in color, "Stoned Immaculate" is the photographer's first and only completely abstract body of work with no overriding environmental message. "The Sundance Suite" was made from 1987 to 1990, during Ketchum's tenure as artist-in-residence at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah. It concentrates on political concerns like the air quality in the Salt Lake Basin - considered the worst in the nation; the building of the Jordanelle Dam - the last great water boondoggle project in the West; and the real estate development of the Park City-Deer Valley ski area. Finally, a small group of photographs on silk result from Ketchum's repeated visits to China since 1982. Invitedby the People's Republic to work at the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute, Ketchum personally oversaw the translation of a number of his pictures onto silk-embroidered tapestries and multipaneled screens. With a preface by Robert Redford and an essay by distinguished ecologist and author John Perlin, The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum is a work of great innovation and integrity.
Pagina's	119
Conditie	Goed — Corners and edges dust jacket slightly worn.
Prijs	€ 30,00

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