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Adam Fuss | 
 enlarge | Author: Adam Fuss
Creator: Eugenia Parry
Publisher: Arena Editions
Category: Book
Buy New: $63.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1131744
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 9.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1891024914
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781891024917
ASIN: 1891024914
Publication Date: February 2, 2004
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Amazon.com Review
This beautiful book is a rare combination: the most exquisite art paired with an essay of equal value. Adam Fuss's hauntingly mysterious photos, made without cameras through a variety of direct means, began to receive a good deal of critical attention around 1990 (when the artist was not yet 30). Eugenia Parry is a learned, experienced, prizewinning author of essays on French calotypes, Joel-Peter Witkin, the monotypes of Edgar Degas, and other subjects. In the same way that Fuss's photographs transcend the natural world while being profoundly enveloped in it, Parry's writing is nuanced and poetic, yet extremely informative. Her long, satisfyingly rich essay here delineates Fuss's childhood, his family life, his earliest impulses toward image-making, his love-hate relationship with cameras, and his working methods, and gently suggests connections between Fuss's experiences and his aesthetic. She incorporates Sufi hymns, English poetry, and a number of pungent quotes from the artist to create a short biography that should stand as a model for evoking the process, internal as well as external, of becoming an artist. The 57 plates of Fuss's lovely, enigmatic images of light, water, birds, babies, tangled roots, sunflowers, children, and stained glass windows are printed on thick white paper. This quiet, perfect book is already a classic. --Peggy Moorman
Product Description
Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss's photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Talbot, and while striking a chord of homage, the images redefine how and what we see in pictures, both viscerally and intellectually. Like an eighteenth-century experimenter, Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach, revealing spiritual and emotional process. Laid atop the paper for hours, and even days, colorization is recorded with a stroboscopic flash. Live snakes, the entrails of rabbits, eggs, cow liver, sperm, flowers, and stained glass circumscribe the vital, often mysterious energies emitted from these pictures. This book, the first major monograph of the artist's work, makes an important contribution to current discussions of photography's past and the question of its future.
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Incredible! June 6, 2000
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I own the Firt Edition of this book and it sits on my coffee table, constantly receiving "rave" reviews whenever I have guests over ---- the book is just stunning! A must have for any photography collector!
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