Cover to cover / Michael Snow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snow, Michael, 1928-2023, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snow, Michael, 1928-2023.

Snow, Michael.

Photography, Artistic.

Artists' books--United States.

Artists' books.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : all illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Primary Information] : [Light Industry], [2020]

Summary:

"For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow's classic artist book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary Information. Never bound by discipline, Snow has remarked that his sculptures were made by a musician, his films by a painter. Flipping through Cover to Cover, which is composed entirely of photographs in narrative sequence, one might describe it as a book made by a filmmaker. Snow himself has called the piece "a quasi-movie," structured around a precise recto-verso montage. Each page features a distinct moment, seen from one perspective on the front, and from a diametrically opposed angle on the back, occasionally pivoting, for instance, between interior and exterior spaces. This organizing principle is complicated by the fact that a given image might be a depiction of the physical environment surrounding the camera or, at other times, a photograph of a photograph. Midway through, the scene is inverted such that the volume must be turned upside-down to be looked at right-side up. The result is an elegant, disorienting study in simultaneity that allows the viewer to enter the work from either end."-- https://primaryinformation.org/product/cover-to-cover/

Notes:

Title from spine.

Co-publishers listed on spine only with initials. Full name of publishers, date of publication, and ISBN number from Primary Information website viewed October 27, 2020 (https://primaryinformation.org/product/cover-to-cover/)

ISBN:

9781734489712

1734489715

OCLC:

1164353473