Edges / Harry Gruyaert ; foreword by Richard Nonas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gruyaert, Harry, 1941- author.

Contributor:

Nonas, Richard, 1936-2021, writer of foreword.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Rivages. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Beaches.

Seashore.

Gruyaert, Harry, 1941-.

Gruyaert, Harry.

Seashore--Pictorial works.

Beaches--Pictorial works.

Landscape photography.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

139 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

The "edges" that Harry Gruyaert, a pre-eminent member of the Magnum photo agency, explores in this incredibly lush, full-colour book, are the oceans, seas and rivers where humans meet the edge and the water begins. This unusual volume, which opens from the top up, takes the reader to Israel's Dead Sea, the Mali River in Niger, the North Sea of Iceland, South Korea and Biarritz, as Gruyaert's sensitive photos record the subtle chromatic vibrations of the edges of the Orient and the Occident. Gruyaert opposes the hustle of the city with a pared-down, yet intense, nature. His landscapes are never empty; they are inhabited places where light, colour, objects, people and situations weave a serene, sublime tableau. 0This beautifully produced photographic manifesto reveals the profoundly poetic character of Gruyaert's work, and the sensual elegance of his faultless compositions.

Notes:

Originally published in 2018 by Les Éditions Textuel, Paris.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780500545058

0500545057

OCLC:

1061503894