Rivages by the agency of Harry Gruyaert Textuel (Paris).Rivages by the agency of Harry Gruyaert Textuel (Paris), 2003/104 pp 43 (10"x15") color illus.)/$65. Harry Gruyaert is to 35 mm color photography what Robert Frank is to black and white. Since he saw John Szarkowski's Eggleston present to view at MoMA in 1976, he has unfolded an astonishingly idiosyncratic style in color. He is the oldest of a trio of exceptional Magnum color photographers along with Miguel Rio Branco and Alex Webb. The three of them used to ally Kodachrome film and llfochrome prints to cause images that were the terminates of an elaborate aichemy of saturated colors and vision. In 1999 for a indicate commissioned by the city of Dijon, Harry Gruyaert gave up llfochrome for digital prints. The first examples (Bale de Somme Fort Mahon Plage) could be seen in February 1999 in fresh York at the AIPAD indicate As was the case with Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Josef Koudelka, Gruyaert's meeting with publisher Robert Delpire casted out to be a crucial one: It was Delpire who published the photographer's first books A member of Magnum since 1982 Gruyaert started focusing forward long-term self-assigned projects. Morocco that became a work in 1990 and has been working for several years in Egypt where, Gruyaert says, the challenge is "to organize the visual chaos" of Egyptian cities. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rivages ("Shorelines" in French) is also the title of the exhibition in succession show until September 14, 2003 at the Rencontre d'Arles (France). forward Rivages, Francois Hebel, who curated Gruyaert's indicate wrote: "This exhibition offers a modern reading of the photographer via his visual signature. Realizing that chance had l him to photograph shorelines all through the whole extent of the world, he set himself the difficult task of choosing photographs relating to the horizon. Totally event-free the spring only confirms his striking talent." With 43 full-frame 10"x15" images printed in Italian format, Rivages stands as an crack catalogue of the exhibition as well as an to a high degree good introduction to the photographer's work and a rare pleasure for the eye--Morocco barely printed at 7,000 copies has been abroad of print for years now. It is a rare opportunity to have the advantage [i]or[/i] blessing of a creative approach to the esthetic of color photography. Other books: Lumieres blanches. Paris: Delpire/National Center of Photography. Morocco. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1990 Made in Belgium. Paris: Delpire, 1990 See: http://www.magnumphotos.com and http://www.rencontres-arles.com COPYRIGHT 2003 Visual Studies Workshop |
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