WILMOUTH, Jean-Luc - RAYNAUD, Patrick - TREMBLAY, Daniel - BEAUGRAND, Catherine - ELACLivre Rare Book
Speaking with Hands; Published on the occasion of the exhibition Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection Organized by Jennifer Blessing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York June 4-September 8 2004
2004réf. 88551New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications 2004. Presumed First Softcover Edition First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Photographs from The Buhl Collection. The format is approximately 9 inches by 10.5 inches. Illustrated front and back covers. With essays by Jennifer Blessing Kirsten A. Hoving and Ralph Rugoff. Contents include Photophilia Plates Photography in surrealism's Trip Plates The Telltale Hand Plats Catalogue Entries and Index of Reproductions. Jennifer Blessing Senior Curator Photography joined the curatorial staff at the Guggenheim in 2002 after previously working at the museum from 1989-97. She developed the Guggenheim's photography collection as well as organizing photography-based exhibitions. Most recently Blessing co-curated Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks. In 2015 Photo-Poetics: An Anthology opened at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle Berlin and subsequently appeared at the museum in New York. Prior to Photo-Poetics she organized the New York presentation of Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video an exhibition originating at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville. In 2012 she collaborated with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to present Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective and Francesca Woodman. During her tenure with the museum she curated Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance which opened in March 2010 before traveling to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Catherine Opie: American Photographer; True North and Jeff Wall: Exposure 2007 for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin; Family Pictures; Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection; and Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography. Kirsten Hoving is a photographer and multimedia artist from Charleston SC whose art balances on the edge between fact and fiction. Hers is an art of transcendence and she frequently combines photographs with unusual processes materials and presentations to evoke quiet dreams and half-remembered tales. Using unexpected viewpoints three-dimensionality and kinetic elements she expands photography's decisive moments into visionary states of wonder. Our imagination she believes is what makes us human and our ability to see the world through metaphors stories and poetic allusions connects our minds to our hearts. Over the last fifteen years Hoving has shown her work in galleries around the world and has published several books of her work including Svala's Saga a project done in collaboration with photographer Emma Powell. With a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University Hoving had a long career as a professor and scholar of modern art with books and articles on many topics including Surrealist photography and the assemblages of Joseph Cornell. Ralph Rugoff OBE born 12 January 1957 is an American-born curator the director of London's Hayward Gallery since 2006 and the curator of the Venice Biennale in 2019. He studied semiotics at Brown University. Rugoff was director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco for nearly six years before becoming the director of London's Hayward Gallery. Rugoff was artistic director of the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to art In October 1993 Henry M. Buhl purchased Alfred Stieglitz's photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands. This photograph became the cornerstone of his private collection that now includes over 1000 images by the medium's foremost practitioners as well as little-known and emerging artists. From a photogenic drawing negative made in 1840 by William Henry Fox Talbot to serial Polaroids made in 2002 by Cornelia Parker the collection encompasses a wide range of photographic practices--scientific journalistic and fine art photography--with a strong component of contemporary art. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum these beautiful and poetic reproductions demonstrate the prevalence of the hand as a photographic theme; a result of photography's easy ability to capture fragments details and ephemeral movement. The images are discussed through topical texts: why hands are a unique theme Jennifer Blessing the prevalence of hands in Surrealist photographs and prose Kirsten A. Hoving and the uncanny aspects of hands in contemporary art that uses photography Ralph Rugoff. Containing work from 150 artists this catalogue is both a visually stunning and haunting object and a handy resource for the study of photography. Guggenheim Museum Publications paperback
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