Topologies

Edgar Martins, John Beardsley, David Campany

126 pages, parution le 01/04/2008

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With artful composition and rigorously controlled framing Edgar Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often un-beautiful sites. Minimalist nighttime beaches, forests ravaged by drought-fueled fires, and Iceland's stark terrain have all served as subjects for his large-scale color photographs. He also explores the unexpected impact of modernism on the landscape, including startlingly graphic airport runways and colorful highway barriers in Portugal that read, at first glance, like abstract murals.

Certain themes recur throughout Martins's work. A sense of place and of alienation from place. A sense of mystery- vividly embodied by a woman with a bouguet of balloons on an absolutely deserted shore. And a sense that something unsettling has just happened or is about to happen-a fire, an accident, a close encounter with some unspecified danger, whether personal or globa. As John Beardsley notes, "Some images are what we habitually expect photography to be-evidence of the world as we think we know it-while others obscure their subjects through an illusionism that borders on magic."

L'auteur - Edgar Martins

Edgar Martins (born in Evora, Portugal, 1977) grew up in Macau, China; he has lived in England since 1996. His first limited-edition book, Black Holes and Other Inconsistencies, was awarded the Thames and Hudson and RCA Society Art Book Prize; his second, The Diminishing Present, was published in 2006. He is represented by the Photographers' Gallery, London; Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York; and Galeria Graga Brandao, Oporto, and Lisbon, Portugal.

L'auteur - John Beardsley

John Beardsley is an independent writer and curator living in Washington, DC.; he teaches the history of landscape architecture at Harvard School of Design.

L'auteur - David Campany

David Campany is reader in history and theory of photography at the University of Westminster, London.

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Topologies of Place
Plates
In conversation
List of Places
Acknowledgments
Chronology

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Aperture
Auteur(s)	Edgar Martins, John Beardsley, David Campany
Parution	01/04/2008
Nb. de pages	126
Format	29 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1038g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9781597110570
ISBN13	978-1-59711-057-0