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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is the poster child for the antiformalist Earth Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. A coil of earth, salt, and stone that Smithson built into Great Salt Lake, Utah, the piece is a tribute to the movement's scale and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Smithson's questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture did not stop with the creation of objects and images; he was committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. A revised and expanded version of The Writings of Robert Smithson, this book is a charged combination of articles and images in which the author demystifies the distinction between theory and practice.
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Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a new introduction by Jack Flam, The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.
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The interviews are what stand out more than anything. The conversation between Smithson and Kaprow is really worth checking out. Anyone who will be having a show of their own should at the very least flip through this book. Also sheds some light into Smithson's early work (some text based things and a few paintings and so forth). Who would have thought that it would be a fun read too?
This is the kind of collection you can return to again and again.
His writings printed on archival paper!.......1999-10-11
Bought this book for research, a lot to read, all photos are black and white.
Customer Reviews:
Great for starting out........2006-02-01
I tried stained glass construction 25+ years ago. I wish I'd had this book then. I'm starting over again. I'm going to the GlassExpo in Las Vegas the end of Mrch 06.
A good introduction for a beginner.......2003-04-15
This is the first book I bought when I started learning this amazing craft. It has beautiful illustrations and pictures (in color), which really show some of the techniques better than you can describe them. It is short and to-the-point, but I did eventually buy a more detailed book. But this one remains the one that I check back with to answer quick questions! Definitely worth the money!
Quick Success to Stain Glass.......2000-09-24
I am a beginner and I'm teaching myself. This book was very helpful in teaching me how to begin. It also has a lot of nice designs that I was not afraid to try. I found this book very helpful in getting started.
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The rise of the individual artist, new technology, and the growing interest in stained glass as a hobby craft have all lead to what is being called ?a new golden age in glass.? Modern homes are frequently embellished with spectacular beveled glass entryways, stained glass bathroom windows, and Tiffany-style lampshades. New artists are combining, creating, and developing unique new forms and styles every day.
Drawing from 30 years of experience, author Dan Alfuth has developed a must-have reference for beginners interested in the art of stained glass. Novice artists can avoid the high costs of commercial stained glass by handcrafting masterpieces of their own. Readers refer to more than 200 color photographs, accompanied by easy-to-understand instructions and full-size patterns, to successfully complete a few simple projects. Explore each step of the stained glass-making process with this "timeless reference guide."
* A straightforward approach to teaching stained glass-making techniques * More than 200 color photographs and easy-to-understand instructions to handcraft projects * Artists? gallery with numerous inspirational pieces
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Strictly for beginners.......2007-07-23
Good book, step-by-step explanations, full color and useful tips to improve your glass skills - The best? The gooseneck lamps - I have to confess that I ordered it by error and when I realised that it was too late to cancel the order ...
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Beginner's Guide to Stained & Decorative Glass
Oriel Hicks
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 0806993510 |
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“It would be difficult to find a better template for an easy-to-use crafts book. First, the color photographs are large and incredibly detailed. Second, the nearly 20 projects and instructions are layered in terms of difficulty and techniques. Third, the artist’s jargon is carfully defined, and directions, clearly elucidated....A very welcoming introduction.”—Booklist.
Customer Reviews:
Don't be fooled.......2004-02-14
If you read the title and you had been fooling around with glass for some time, you would most likely give this book a miss. Yes, it is a book for beginners but it touches on so many things you can do with glass apart form the obvious stained glass techniques that it is an invaluable source of information. I have learnt new techniques about cutting bottles, painting glass, designing 3-d glass models that aren't explored in your standard glass books that all seem to have the same format: history of glass, glass types, projects.. this one will amaze even some advanced glass users. I originally borrowed this from the library but was so upset having to give it back I came on Amazon to purchse it!
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Votives to windows...learn how to create the look of stained glass!
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Easy to read and follow manual teaching the beginner how to make stained glass art, beginning with the basics and finishing with complex 3D objects. Comes with hundreds of patterns and a free trial version of GlassEye2000 design software. New digital format requires no separate reader software and runs on Windows PCs or Macs running VirtualPC.
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A woeful book.......2005-11-01
If you are looking for a good book on stained glass making you can do better or worse then this. It's average in its information and presentation, but where it really looses stars is in the way the book is done as therapy for its author. The "award winning" author, (he won a few local contests.) is trying to get over his emotional situation after 9-11., and that is where the book, and projects really suffer. Many of the projects that you get to do are flags with doves, firemen teddy bears and policeman teddy bears. That's great and all, but I was really disappointed that the projects in the book were very somber. When you load the book into your computer it opens in a small screen and the pictures are to small to do you any good, unless you print them out. The book would be a slim volume if printed in a normal book form. So if you are looking for a book to help you get into stained glass to get over something then this is it, if you are looking for a book to each you the joy and beauty of the craft you could do much better then this book.
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Boldly innovative and technically experimental, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) used double exposures, colour, extreme contrast, and wide-angle photography to create lyrical, highly personal images. He was celebrated as a photographer of nature, the city, and womenusing his wife, Eleanor, for a model.
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A Concise Compilation.......2000-04-27
Harry Callahan was the most influential and important figure in photography throughout the last half of the 20th century. This edition of his work shows chronologically how Callahan's approach to the medium evolved and changed, while his vision remained ever faithful to modernity. The book begins in Detroit, where Callahan worked for Chrysler while pursuing photography as a serious hobby. It was also during this time that he married Eleanor Knapp, who would later become the subject for many of his strongest images. The accompanying essay by Sarah Greenough is succinctly written, blending biographical information to the photographs Callahan took throughout his long, photographic journey (Callahan died in 1999). Callahan's outlook on photography changed dramatically after having met Ansel Adams, at a photography workshop in Detroit. Taking some of Adams' philosophy and refining it, Callahan created his own style of photographing/printing, made apparent by such images as `Weeds in Snow' and `Detroit, 1942'. In these images and throughout the rest of his life, Callahan easily turned the simplest subject matter into monumental works of photographic art. The book provides powerful examples of this, in both black & white and color. After leaving his job to pursue photography full time, Callahan moved to Chicago and taught at the Institute of Design. Continuing the experimentation he began in Detroit, Callahan worked and refined his style during his Chicago years, utilizing double exposure, collage, close-ups, and the use of positive and negative space. The book then turns to Callahan's New England period. It was during this time that Callahan taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence. The book captures this period vividly, with images of varying contrast and mood. Here we see Callahan's ability at adapting to his environment by producing increasingly poetic images of nature, as well as urban and suburban street scenes. In his later work from 1972-1992, the photographs in "Harry Callahan" document the photographer's travels in other countries, with an increased attention on color. It remains clear by the images shown in his later years, that Callahan continued to explore photography by constantly challenging himself and the medium. Where most photographers are known for one particular style or body of work (Cartier-Bresson's `decisive moment' or Robert Frank's publication of The Americans), Callahan is known for many different styles and bodies of work. The photographs in "Harry Callahan" prove this with each turn of the page. Callahan was a photographic artist in the truest sense, if we choose to believe an artists' goal is not only to create but to constantly evolve. Callahan was, continues to be, and always will be an influence to those photographers who seek not only perfection in the creation of their photographic art, but also change.
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Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the most influential photographic artists of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation, Callahan explored a range of subjects—from landscapes to city streets to portraits of his wife—and techniques throughout his career.
Beautifully designed and produced, this book focuses on understanding how Callahan worked—both his day-to-day photographic explorations and his resulting fifty-year career in photography. Exploring the rich contents of the Harry Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, the authors look at how Callahan’s choice of subjects and visual ideas emerged from deliberate and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed with archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints, sequential ordering, and variant printings. This close investigation of Callahan’s individual and experimental approach to materials in turn leads to a larger consideration of his relationship to seemingly contradictory strains in American visual culture of the twentieth century.
Reproducing a host of previously unpublished images and documents, this volume juxtaposes select artifacts—such as contact sheets and variants—with final images to explicate Callahan’s life in and influence upon photography. Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work will offer a rare glimpse into the creative process of an important and fascinating artist.
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Wonderful biography of a gifted artist.......2007-08-29
This is a wonderful book on the creative life of one of the 20th century's most creative photographic artists. It is so much more than a "mere" biography.
What sets this biography (which a generous sampling of Callahan's work) apart from other books in this genre, is its elegant focus on the creative aspects of photography. In discussing Callahan's dedication to constant experimentation, choice of subject matter, his visual approaches to a particular shot, selection of themes and improvisations, sequential ordering, and the all important print process, the book provides a rare invaluable resource to the inner reflections of an artist at work (and play). Callahan's lifelong body of work is testament to the fact that an artist need not travel to the ends of the earth to find beauty; beauty is not just in the eyes of the beholder, but in the dedication and loving attention to craft and creative experimentation in one's backyard.
more of the same.......2007-05-06
Ever since Harry Callahan died in 1999 I have been waiting for a major evaluation of his undeniably historic contribution to twentieth century photography. "Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work." is another of several tantalizing introductions to Callahan's oeuvre that fails to dig deep enough and wide enough to make much of an impact on those passingly familiar with his body of work. There are only a very few photographs that have not been published before.
I want a catalogue raisonne or as close to it as the holders of his photographs can aspire to. I want a significant analysis of the imagery that goes far beyond the oft repeated "magical, mysterious, intuitive" pieties of most current writing including the book under review. I want a writer with a vivid imagination to sit down with all the grass photographs, all the Eleanor photographs, all the Cape Cod photographs and say something that allows the viewer to appreciate the psychological depth of Callahan's imagery.
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This surprising book presents 50 beautiful full-color images by the great American landscape photographer, Ansel Adams, marking the first time that a significant body of Ansel Adams' color work has ever been published.Ansel Adams began to photograph in color soon after Kodachrome was invented in the mid-1930s, and shot more that 3,000 color images during his lifetime. Very few of these photographs, however, were published or exhibited. As Adams remarked late in life after observing the advances in color printing techniques, "People are skeptical about my thoughts on color. I do not blame them, as I have protested it and have not shown my color pictures. I feel the urge now and wish I were sixty years younger!" The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, working with the distinguished photographer Harry Callahan, decided to share this remarkable body of work, reproduced in accordance with Adams' exacting standards, through state-of-the-art color imaging and printing technology. These images, accompanied by an introductory essay by James Enyeart and a selection of Ansel Adams' thoughtful, often contradictory writings on color photography, add a fascinating new dimension to Adams' enduring legacy.
Customer Reviews:
Alternative View.......2005-12-24
Any decent photographer knows about the work of Ansel Adams. Sure, he is well known for his black and white work, but many of us have wondered about his work in color. This book presents some good photos, but the main thing is the text (and there isn't too much of it, which is good). It includes analysis, but also comments from Ansel himself (articles, interviews, etc.). Definitely worth reading. I was going to just breeze through the pretty pictures, but when I started reading the text, I had to read all of it.
A work in progress.......2004-10-12
I got a copy of this recently and it is a truly interesting book.
The use of colour displays a profound vision and shows a great
understanding of the necessity for colours to work together in an image,
sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in contrast.
It is truly as great as the B&W work Adams is so well known for?
To be honest no, but he was still working towards a vision of
how to use colour in his work, so it remains a work in progress.
Given another 50 years I have no doubt that Adams would have
colour work every bit as good as his B&W.
You could learn a lot from the images in this book, possibly
all the more because it isn't a really polished work which can
seem a bit inaccesible to us lesser mortals.
Will the Real Ansel Adams Please Stand Up.............2002-07-13
Many reviewers make quite clear a fact about Ansel Adams regarding his own colour photography: That he did not want it published, for his own lack of control over the medium was substandard to the exacting methods he employed in his black-and-white prints. Without reservation, agreed.
But what most of Ansel Adams' most fervent admirers won't admit was that this book of colour prints made from transparencies belie the legendary artist's alleged "genius" for composition. Many of the compositions within are colour versions of famous black-and-white prints, the most famous being Half Dome at Yosemite.
I wish that aspiring photographers' introduction to Ansel Adams be similar to that of a Japanese photography assistant I once employed. She had never seen Adams' work (not as popular in the Far East as in the States) prior to this book. Her words regarding this book were "he takes pleasant photographs of pretty subjects in nature." I later introduced her to Adams' black-and-white "greatest hits" that Little, Brown, also published. Her assessment: "His compositions are generally conventional, but not novel. But, with a red filter while shooting and many darkroom methods and formulas, he uses technique to bring drama to his prints."
Ditto. It was refreshing to hear this opinion of Adams, because my friend did not have the yoke of artistic correctness hanging about her neck to remind her to speak of Adams in reverent, hushed, tones as some great "master" as though he were the photographic equal of Rembrandt, Vermeer or Rodin.
What Adams' admirers most fear about this book is that it will lay waste to all the decades of carefully designed PR Adams' publicity machine and his heirs have promulgated in their hagiographic transmogrification of a pretty good artist and a peerless technician into "St. Ansel."
The truth of the matter was that Ansel Adams made pretty pictures of pretty landscapes. And, that's what you'll get in this book. If you want the illusion of great art, turn to any of his volumes in black-and-white.
But, if you want truly great, earth-shattering black and white photography that inspires both intellect and emotion, then turn to the true masters: Walker Evans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Robert Frank and Leni Riefenstahl.
Ansel Adams at his worst.......2002-05-06
At first, I thought I would buy this book to complete my Ansel Adams collection, despite all the bad reviews. I found this book in a library and changed my mind. This book is not worth its price for 3 reasons.
1. The quality of the color prints is very bad. The colors have faded, probably because the pictures were taken decades ago and the color technology was not good back then. Don't let the cover fools you, it is probably the best one in the whole book.
2. The reproduction is even worse. The pictures are so small you can barely make out the details.
3. Adams took a very different approach for his color photographs. The viewpoint he chose is narrow and lacking in perspective, the two most serious sins in landscape photography.
It makes me think that, instead of trying to make a reader like Adams' color photographs, the publisher of this book is trying very hard to make sure that a reader will hate them - just to prove Adams' own point.
If you still want a book on Ansel Adams' color photograhs, wait until a better book comes along. This book is not even worth considering.
Interesting Perspective on the Limits of Adams' Genius.......2000-11-16
"I can truthfully say I can remember only two or three color photographs that are worth remembering." -- Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams long felt that color photography was not art and not consistent with his vision of his own photography. What we have in this volume are almost totally unpublished and unexhibited images from his transparencies that he chose not to publish or exhibit. In other words, these are mostly his rejects. So, this is like pawing through his working files of sketches rather than his finished work, in an unauthorized way. How does that make you feel? Hmmm.
For me, the benefit of this volume was to better understand the brilliance of how his processing of black and white images played into the success of his best work. This book contains 50 images that clearly do not have the full Ansel Adams feel and impact.
The strength of this volume is the plenitude of material on what Adams had to say about color photography in general and his own. These points are nicely characterized in the essay by James L. Enyeart. One of the key problems for Adams was that he could "see" the final black and white image he wanted to create in his mind before taking a photograph, but could not "see" the color image in advance. He was not one to take hundreds of exposures hoping to have one or two turn out to be interesting. The art of photography for him was always a deliberate one, not an accidental process. While many color photographers used Polaroid stills as tests in this way, Adams did not want to do so.
Another problem was that early color processing did not allow him the control over the final image that black and white processing did.
Perhaps the ultimate problem was that "the most difficult subject for color photography was landscape." "The image -- to the photographer -- is a very different experience from what the viewer might receive from it." Think of a photograph then, as "a simulation of a perception of the world around us . . . ." A color photograph tended to destroy Adams' preference for understatement, and desire to show subtle connections. In fact, you will often see poor photography literally shouting with color that overwhelms the senses to no purpose.
Harry M. Callahan took on the thankless task of picking out some images to put in the book. He did this solely on aesthetic grounds, reflecting his own taste. While I do not know what he did not select, I was interested to see that a few works seemed to carry off Adams' desire for subtlety in new ways by showing additional detail in the shadows that are missing in his parallel black and white images. These works include:
Yosemite Falls, c. 1953
Green Hills, c. 1945
Mount McKinley, Grass, 1948
Pool, 1947
El Capitan, Texas, 1947
Waimea Canyon, 1948
Clearing Storm, Yosemite, c. 1950
Detail of Mammoth Pool, Yellowstone, 1946
Mono Lake, 1947
Bad Water and Telescope Pool, Death Valley, c. 1947
The Grand Canyon, 1947
If you want to see Ansel Adams' best work, skip this book. If you want to understand why his black and white work is so great, take a look at this book.
Whether you decide to look or not, I have a challenge for you. Do you have anything in your files that is not intended for the public to see? Take a lesson from the experience of this book and destroy that material today.
Edit down to the best!
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Water's edge
Harry M Callahan
Manufacturer: Distributed by the Viking Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: 0935112014 |
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Aperture Masters of Photography Six-Copy Collector's Set
Includes Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Eikoh Hosoe, Tina Modotti, Barbara Morgan, and W. Eugene Smith
Aperture's expanded Masters of Photography series presents an engrossing introduction to the photographers whose work has incalculably affected the way we regard the world. Each volume begins with an essay by a leading critic or historian, offering an incisive look at the photographer's career and importance in the history of photography. Each hardcover, clothbound volume in this slipcased set features approximately forty duotone images.
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Eleanor
Harry M. Callahan
Manufacturer: Callaway Editions
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Harry Callahan (Aperture Masters of Photography)
ASIN: 0935112111 |
Book Description
Elemental Landscapes accompanies an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that concentrates exclusively on the landscape photographs of the late American photographer Harry Callahan. The natural landscape was a subject that occupied Callahan throughout his career, and examples range in time from the early 1940s to the early 1990s, providing an in-depth look at the artist's evolution. Callahan was fascinated not by the wide, sweeping landscapes of photographers like Ansel Adams but by more intimate pictures, which often remove the context of earth and sky from the scene, creating abstractions that challenge our notions of landscape by presenting a small slice of the world in all its infinite detail.
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Landscape: Theory
Lewis Baltz ,
Harry Callahan , and
Eliot Porter
Manufacturer: Lustrum Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0912810270 |
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- This is Great
- This book is not funny and the cartoons are poorly drawn.
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Political Gumbo: A Collection of Editorial Cartoons
Walt Handelsman
Manufacturer: Firebird Press
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1565540549 |
Customer Reviews:
This is Great.......2000-06-17
I love Walt's style and the cartoons are really funny in context of the political climate. I think he is one of the best!
This book is not funny and the cartoons are poorly drawn........1999-05-22
I love political cartoons and own several books by the greatest political cartoonist, Pat Oliphant. He is witty and an excellent artist. This book by Walt Handelsman, however, is not funny and looks like the cartoons were drawn by an amateur. If you want to see how a professional produces political cartoons, check out Pat Oliphant's books.
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