BOOKS 28 Photographs
Photographs by Rolfe Horn. Text by Dennis High.
Nazraeli Press, Tucson, 2002. 44 pp., 28 duotone illustrations, 11x12".
Horn is a young photographer, in his early 30s, who is presently enjoying a growing national reputation. The image above was featured on the cover of B&W Magazine and is found in this handsome new monograph of his best work to date. Horn's photography explores the landscape in intimate views, often at night or twilight. His first monograph, a limited edition collection of original prints of Angkor Wat, was published 2 years ago, (Cat# TR080L, $1000); several images from that body of work are included in 28 Photographs. The book is limited to 500 copies, with an original silver print tipped on the cover. Price: $65.00
MARTY KNAPP: Point Reyes: 20 years.
Features: Deluxe Hardcover and Collector's Editions
The photographs are faithfully reproduced in rich tri-tone inks on archival, matte-coated paper. The book is available in two versions: a Deluxe Hardcover Edition and a signed and numbered Collector's Edition. Each edition features the same photographs and essays, but in addition, The Collector's Edition is certified and limited to 300 copies. It is presented in a classic hand-made clamshell case. Point Reyes Sunset is featured on the edition's subtly debossed front cover. A signed, original Knapp print is also included with the Collector's Edition; select either:
Clouds, White House Pool 1986,
After the Storm, Point Reyes 1994, or
Weeping Oak, Bear Valley 2006
California Trip: Photographs and Text by Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin California Trip shows the history of peace and love, the tradition of protest, the freedom of the open road and the highs of California’s wilderness – all that is far from shopping malls and corporate cubicles. This is an uncensored look at real California, not a tourist whitewash. It is a social critique yet also captures the freewheeling spirit and beauty of California. A thinking person’s guide to California, outrageous and insightful, this book feels the pulse of the state. For visitors, it’s a trip they want to take; for residents it describes the art of living in their state, finding both thrills and spiritual meaning in its wilderness and people. Color & Light Editions is proud to publish this groundbreaking book by Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin. It is a book that will redefine and expand the art of visual storytelling. 300 pages–600 photographs, 530 in color and 70 in quadatone black and white.
Brad Cole: The Last Dream
Excerpt from: Dark Chamber Music, an essay by A.D. Coleman from the book, Last Dream.
"All of that coalesces in this sequence, Last Dream, within whose loosely constructed, non-literal narrative framework a handful of spectral protagonists pass through some ancient tunnels and grottoes and then move through a wooded, coastal landscape dotted with discarded and collapsing remnants of human made structures. As viewers, we're meant to imagine ourselves among them, it seems, to think of ourselves as seeing not through the photographer's eyes but through theirs. This makes for an eerie, disorienting journey, for they (we) seem to move back and forth in time; some of these images, with their vignetted corners and mottled surfaces, evoke the look of photographs made a hundred or more years ago, while others seem as contemporary as the present moment. And the pace of their motion shifts continuously, which is no less disconcerting. Sometimes they race, so quickly that the surround blurs, disintigrates into streaks of light and dark; sometimes they stop short and freeze, till every detail of the scene comes crisp and clear. Eventually, they step past anything that might require urgency and escape, reaching the very edge of land and moving beyond it, into calm if melancholy haven of a limitless sea and sky.
There is something distinctly both filmic and musical about this sequence--a mix of that inexorable forward motion of any cinematic projection and the steady progression of a string quartet through the polyphonies and silences of the calibrated movements of a composition in a minor key.
Cole, who has turned a number of his images into slide projections for installations of his work, and has made one group of them into a film, also composes music, which serves as the auditory environment in his installations and as the soundtrack for his film. So this blend of the musical, the filmic and the photographic comes naturally and organically out of the work, rather than being arbitrarily imposed on it. Individually, these photographs stand on their own as finely seen and superbly rendered single images. Organized into this sequence's larger form, their interplay and resonance's make them into something else, something more; and by doing so, Cole pushes the envelope of the traditions he comes out of and still clearly loves.
The resulting bookwork transports the viewer - as if swept up in some momentous course of events beyond comprehension or control - through a suite of sensual and spiritual adventures in charged, enchanted places."
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