Fantastic, beautifully illustrated, 10/10. Available now at Amazon et al. Best book on him ever! About time.
Fantastic, beautifully illustrated, 10/10. Available now at Amazon et al. Best book on him ever! About time.
When I was 16 I thought my father the stupidest man in the world; when I reached 21, I was astounded by how much he had learned in just 5 years!
-appropriated from Mark Twain
I'm going to the exhibit tomorrow at the Getty Museum in LA...!
I'm afraid we're going to need a field report on that!Originally Posted by PViapiano
When I was 16 I thought my father the stupidest man in the world; when I reached 21, I was astounded by how much he had learned in just 5 years!
-appropriated from Mark Twain
Re: New Frederick Evans Book Just Out
I just bougth it from amazon.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...ef=oss_product
You'll love it!
When I was 16 I thought my father the stupidest man in the world; when I reached 21, I was astounded by how much he had learned in just 5 years!
-appropriated from Mark Twain
Today, I received a copy of the Getty Museum's Frederick Evans' Book. The reproductions are excellent, clear and uncropped, with the original mounts showing in many instances, which helps to present the photographs as the artist intended. All aspects of the book seem fine to me. Although Evans was mainly concerned with a relatively narrow range of subject matter, he was a wonderful artist. I look forward to reading the text.
I also received Framing the West; the Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Another book worth buying. The plates are fine, and again I look forward to reading the text. The editors of Yale University Press should be commended for putting together the finest series of books on the history of photography that has ever been published.
The printing is very well-done with the platinum/palladium images looking marvelous. The 3 essays are also excellent for their insight into Evans' views on photography and the then current pictorialist movement. Well worth the cost. Now if the exhibit was only closer ;-(
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"Searching for the moral justification for selfishness" JK Galbraith
What Michael said...
When I was 16 I thought my father the stupidest man in the world; when I reached 21, I was astounded by how much he had learned in just 5 years!
-appropriated from Mark Twain
The price in UK was £ 35.00, £ 4.98 shipping and £ 10 VAT (intra EU it is the VATYou'll love it!
of the destination country, which in Denmark is 25 %).
If I had obtained it from USA the cost would have been $53.75, but on top of
that you would have to add 25 % danish VAT and 150 DKR ($25.00) for customs
handling.
There are no customs handling intra EU
Last edited by Per Madsen; 18-Mar-2010 at 13:06. Reason: Additional information.
OK, folks...I went to the Getty Museum yesterday to see the FH Evans exhibit and it is a really special show. Many, many prints filling several rooms...almost as big (168 prints) as the recent Irving Penn show which had around 230 prints.
All his cathedral work is here as well as a huge selection of landscapes. His images of passageways and steps go far beyond documentation.
It was so incredible to see some iconic prints here. Interesting to me was the matting work that Evans himself had designed. A lot of inked or pencil borders, sometimes mounted on a brown paper, etc. They even had several of his glass lantern slides, which Evans used for lectures, so in one room they had a projector showing these slides on the wall.
I'm looking forward to going back again...there's also another show there called The Worker, which celebrates working people via photography through the years. I didn't get a chance to visit that one but did see a Salgado print of a Kuwaiti oil worker at the entrance that was absolutely riveting!
If you're in or near LA, you have to see the Evans show...http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/frederick_evans/
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