John Cohen : look up to the moon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, John, 1932-2019, author, photographer.

Standardized Title:

Photographs. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohen, John, 1932-2019--Travel--Morocco.

Cohen, John.

Cohen, John, 1932-2019.

Documentary photography.

Travel.

Morocco--Pictorial works.

Morocco.

Morocco--Description and travel.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

119 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 33 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Look up to the moon

Place of Publication:

Gottingen : Steidl, 2019.

Summary:

In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed the straits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with a handwritten note in cursive Arabic; the man who had composed it in New York had told him to keep this paper far from your passport. Cohen had no idea why or indeed what the note said; it was not addressed to a specific person. He was simply instructed to look for a certain man when he arrived, who would then send him to "the others." Cohen's otherwise straightforward trip to make photographs in Morocco thus began with a sense of intrigue and perhaps risk. This was Cohen's first journey outside America to see the world. In his words: The camera led my way to a distant culture, along with the desire to represent what I could see and sense there, and not be distracted by chronology or thought. My photographs were intended to be a sensual response to light and to the people who inhabited these spaces. These Morocco photos were an indication of what was to come.

ISBN:

9783958295551

395829555X

OCLC:

1091648542

Publisher Number:

9783958295551