$88.00
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2015
Summary
Harry Gruyaert: A Retrospective in Color
Harry Gruyaert pioneered color photography in Europe during the ‘70s and ‘80s, drawing inspiration from American photographers and cinema. His distinctive approach forged a new path: emotive, graphically bold, and non-narrative.
His groundbreaking 1972 series, TV Shots, captured random, distorted television images. Made in Belgium reflects his complex connection to his homeland through saturated hues. Born in Antwerp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500544488 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0500544484 |
| Author: | Francois Hebel, Richard Nonas |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 1.30kg |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 309mm x 292mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“While the colors might pull you in, what is happening within the frame of Gruyaert’s photographs stand alone primarily because his intent is to create a narrative within a single image.”
‘The images gathered together in a new book of his photographs are full of quiet, even banal moments. But they are transformed by Gruyaert’s eye, an eye that can find beauty in a raincloud, flaking paint or a string of lightbulbs’ - The Herald, Glasgow
About The Author
Francois Hebel
François Hébel is a distinguished photography curator. Director of ‘Les Rencontres Arles Photographie’ Festival, France, from 2001 to 2014, he is now director of the Foto Industrie Bologna Biennale, and is also overseeing the creation of the new Caribbean Image festival in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. He was formerly vice president of the Corbis Photo Agency and was also the director of Magnum Photos Paris.
Richard Nonas worked as an anthropologist for 10 years, doing field-work on American Indians in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona. He turned to sculpture in the mid-1960s at age 30.
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