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Cover: 9783969995266 | An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture | John Gossage | Buch | 120 S.
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An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture
Buch von John Gossage
Sprache: Englisch

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In An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture John Gossage considers the changes objects (sculptures) undergo when they are photographed. His images transform these objects rather than transcribe them, altering their condition of being. For Gossage, to photograph is to ask one thing to become another kind of thing. Indeed, does a sculpture always need a pedestal or isolation to not just be another thing in the world? Whether a pile of archive folders, a dirty beaker, a heap of baseball caps, a plank of wood or a tuft of grass, he photographs these objects against the same background of white paper, their shadows often taking on as much presence as their concrete forms. With so much of the objects unclear (their volume, scale and weight, their three-dimensionality), and each having lost its original purpose or being about to die, how much has Gossage actually saved in his photographs: only his intentions? Is a good photograph always better than what it pictures-and how? This book is a dictionary because it describes the sculptures rather than being the sculptures: as every photograph does with everything.
In An Abridged Dictionary of Sculpture John Gossage considers the changes objects (sculptures) undergo when they are photographed. His images transform these objects rather than transcribe them, altering their condition of being. For Gossage, to photograph is to ask one thing to become another kind of thing. Indeed, does a sculpture always need a pedestal or isolation to not just be another thing in the world? Whether a pile of archive folders, a dirty beaker, a heap of baseball caps, a plank of wood or a tuft of grass, he photographs these objects against the same background of white paper, their shadows often taking on as much presence as their concrete forms. With so much of the objects unclear (their volume, scale and weight, their three-dimensionality), and each having lost its original purpose or being about to die, how much has Gossage actually saved in his photographs: only his intentions? Is a good photograph always better than what it pictures-and how? This book is a dictionary because it describes the sculptures rather than being the sculptures: as every photograph does with everything.
Über den Autor
Born in 1946 on Staten Island, New York, John Gossage has, more than most contemporary photographers, become renowned for his intellectually engaging, subversive and exceptionally crafted artist books and other publications. In them Gossage utilizes under-recognized elements of the urban environment-abandoned patches of land, refuse and detritus, barbed wire, graffiti and more-to explore themes as disparate as surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power. "Gossage is always about the luxuriance of what goes unnoticed, what goes unseen until his pictures call your attention to it," wrote Gus Blaisdell. Steidl has published Gossage's The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler (2010), Looking up Ben James - A Fable (2018), Should Nature Change (2019), Jack Wilson's Waltz (2019) and The Nicknames of Citizens (2020).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 120 S.
ISBN-13: 9783969995266
ISBN-10: 3969995264
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gossage, John
Hersteller: Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Steidl Verlag, Düstere Str. 4, D-37073 Göttingen, mwegener@steidl.de
Maße: 264 x 221 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: John Gossage
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2026
Gewicht: 0,642 kg
Artikel-ID: 135796181
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