Janelle Lynch: Barcelona Contributor(s): Lynch, Janelle (Photographer), Barthes, Roland (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Burchfield, Charles (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 1934435686 ISBN-13: 9781934435687 Publisher: Radius Books OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries |
Dewey: 770.92 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 10.7" W x 12.4" (3.43 lbs) 114 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Scouring the fallow landscape around the Llobregat river and the Rub stream near Barcelona with her 8 x 10 camera, Janelle Lynch (born 1969) searches for evidence and omens of nature's life cycles. Her photographs of anthropomorphized trees, walls of litter-strewn vegetation, rocks and disintegrating leaves, all taken during a four-year stay in Barcelona between 2007 and 2011, are informed by three figures whose texts are excerpted in this volume: Roland Barthes, particularly his discussion of mourning in Camera Lucida; Charles Burchfield, whose pantheistic painterly animations of landscape have much inspired Lynch; and Wendell Berry, whose essay on approaching nature with respect and humility helped to further hone her process. Barcelona is also conceived as a homage to Lynch's grandmother, who died in 2008, and to the victims of a devastating flood in the region that occurred in 1962. |