- Gebundene Ausgabe: 30 Seiten
- Verlag: Nazraeli Press (November 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1590050134
- ISBN-13: 978-1590050132
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,4 x 17,2 x 1 cm
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Few careers with a camera have been as narrated and celebrated as that of Margaret Bourke-White. With legendary fortitude and energy, Bourke-White time and again nailed the assignments she was given with formal brilliance and incisive descriptive power. In this series of images, we feel a relaxing of her precision as she recorded an emblematic struggle between natural force and human ingenuity, between our limitations and the grand devices we create to defy them. In the March 22, 1937 issue of LIFE, a publication just six months old, there was a cover story entitled 'Parachutes'. Margaret Bourke-White's pictures told the story of the Irving Air Chute Company in Buffalo, New York, the world's largest manufacturer of parachutes. The photographic sequence of parachutes being tested by Irving employees in this book did not make the article in 1937, but survive instead as diminutive and precious vintage prints, as art. Their wonder is in their ambiguity, their lack of captions and context, their archetypal address of the questions of human importance, of who is really pulling the strings.Printed in duotone on matt stock, and bound in Japanese saifu, this elegant little book is an important addition to the literature on this extraordinary artist.
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Beautiful Both Outside and Inside, But Design Could Be Even Better
28. März 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Even the outside of this book brings pleasure. Slim, and about 17 cm wide by 24 cm high, the book feels light in one's hands. The silky-feeling shiny white cloth cover is reminiscent of a parachute, and the light blue printing on the outside and the light blue endpapers are reminiscent of the sky. There is no dust jacket.
A two-page introduction by Trudy Wilner Stack begins the book. Here we learn that Bourke-White took the photos for a March 22, 1937, cover story in LIFE magazine. The story concerned the Irving Air Chute Company, but "the photographic sequence of parachutes being tested by Irving employees in this book did not make the article...."
We then find 20 black-and-white images of people on the ground and parachutes (although it's not clear to me that these are 20 different parachutes) "reproduced 1:1 from the original photographs." Apparently the grassy area is windy, as most of the photos appear to show the people holding back parachutes that are blown open. Each photo is 7.2 cm by 9.6 cm; 17 photos are landscape orientation and 3 are portrait. The printing quality is very fine, at a much higher resolution than the 640x480 pixels on the web site of the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco (which exhibited the photos in 2003).
As Stack writes, the photos' "wonder is in their ambiguity, their lack of captions and context, their archetypal address of human insigificance, of who is really pulling the strings." Especially without words to accompany them, the photos do not resemble the photojournalism we normally associate with Bourke-White, as in "You Have Seen Their Faces" or numerous LIFE articles. The closest relation I can think of among contemporary photographers would be the work of Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, whose toned B&W compositions of men in black suits in various situations outdoors have a distinctive style. The taking-photos-out-of-context approach also recalls Mandel's and Sultan's book "Evidence."
I'm not a book designer, but if I designed this book I would have made four changes. First, there's no need for page numbers. Second, the sizes of the photos could be larger - why not 2:1 instead of 1:1? Third, I didn't understand why pages 11 and 27 were blank. Finally, the cover seems easily soiled, and a clear dust jacket would have provided some protection.
Buy a copy of this lovely "first edition of 1,000" from Amazon.com!
A two-page introduction by Trudy Wilner Stack begins the book. Here we learn that Bourke-White took the photos for a March 22, 1937, cover story in LIFE magazine. The story concerned the Irving Air Chute Company, but "the photographic sequence of parachutes being tested by Irving employees in this book did not make the article...."
We then find 20 black-and-white images of people on the ground and parachutes (although it's not clear to me that these are 20 different parachutes) "reproduced 1:1 from the original photographs." Apparently the grassy area is windy, as most of the photos appear to show the people holding back parachutes that are blown open. Each photo is 7.2 cm by 9.6 cm; 17 photos are landscape orientation and 3 are portrait. The printing quality is very fine, at a much higher resolution than the 640x480 pixels on the web site of the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco (which exhibited the photos in 2003).
As Stack writes, the photos' "wonder is in their ambiguity, their lack of captions and context, their archetypal address of human insigificance, of who is really pulling the strings." Especially without words to accompany them, the photos do not resemble the photojournalism we normally associate with Bourke-White, as in "You Have Seen Their Faces" or numerous LIFE articles. The closest relation I can think of among contemporary photographers would be the work of Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, whose toned B&W compositions of men in black suits in various situations outdoors have a distinctive style. The taking-photos-out-of-context approach also recalls Mandel's and Sultan's book "Evidence."
I'm not a book designer, but if I designed this book I would have made four changes. First, there's no need for page numbers. Second, the sizes of the photos could be larger - why not 2:1 instead of 1:1? Third, I didn't understand why pages 11 and 27 were blank. Finally, the cover seems easily soiled, and a clear dust jacket would have provided some protection.
Buy a copy of this lovely "first edition of 1,000" from Amazon.com!
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