Stone Walls

Personal Boundaries

Wendell Berry, Susan Allport, Lucy Breathitt, Mariana Cook

192 pages, parution le 15/09/2011

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Résumé

Photographer Mariana Cook (born 1955) is best known for her intimate character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye, as published in her much-acclaimed collections Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons, Generations of Women, Couples, Faces of Science and Mathematicians. Cook departs from her portrait work with Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries, a project that was conceived one day at her home on Martha's Vineyard, when 56 cows strayed through a crumbling section of the stone wall she shares with her neighbor. From this serendipitous moment of inspiration, Cook embarked on an eight-year journey, travelling from New England to the American South, Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean and Peru in pursuit of dry stone walls. Far from being a conventional travelogue, these beautiful black-and-white photographs portray the wall in landscape, the wall as abstract form, and the return of rocks to nature.

Cook is fascinated with the juxtaposition of stones as an instance of geometric composition, as well as with the resonance between walls of different cultures. With a tribute from Wendell Berry and essays providing a context for the walls of each region, the resulting collection captures a fundamental aspect of the relationship human beings forge with the land they inhabit.

L'auteur - Wendell Berry

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L'auteur - Susan Allport

Susan Allport is author of The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love and A Natural History of Parenting: Parental Care in the Animal World and Ours, among other books. She a frequent contributor to the New York Times and other publications.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Grafiche Damiani
Auteur(s)	Wendell Berry, Susan Allport, Lucy Breathitt, Mariana Cook
Parution	15/09/2011
Nb. de pages	192
Format	29 x 29
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1755g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9788862081696
ISBN13	978-88-6208-169-6