| A Kind of Rapture Contributor(s): Bergman, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 067944257X ISBN-13: 9780679442578 Publisher: Pantheon Books OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1998 Annotation: "A Kind of Rapture" brings together a selection of photos from Bergman's two-year travels by car through the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. 51 color photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Artists' Books - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies |
| Dewey: 779.209 |
| LCCN: 98016454 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 9.91" W x 11.97" (2.60 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than ten years, Robert Bergman--a brilliant artist who has purposefully withheld himself from the mainstream--traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. Even as he used a simple 35-mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting, his was a monumental, Whitmanesque project: to document the physical appearance and spirit of Americans, and to gauge the climate of our times. A Kind of Rapture, which is certain to be a classic work of photography, brings together the first selection from Bergman's epic enterprise. Having taken, developed, and printed his own pictures since the age of five, Bergman has now, for A Kind of Rapture, created his own color separations, using high-resolution digital equipment, in an effort to exercise more control over the quality of reproduction than photographers have ever had. Bergman and his colleagues have helped define a new paradigm for art-book publishing--each and every image in this book is extraordinary for its fidelity to the artistic sensibility that informs its original print. With an introduction by Toni Morrison and an Afterword by Meyer Schapiro |