“The Sea in Its myriad Facets”
As a photographer and a sailor I’m at a loss to understand why, in the 12 years since this volume was first published, I first came across it last week, thanks to the generosity of friend and long time crew member on the good ship FAIR WINDS. It’s official title is “The Sea- A Celebration in Photographs” but I suspect this acquired a certain banality in its translation from the French, the language in which it was original published . It has been assembled by Pierre Borhan.
This Saturday I’m giving a talk on Martime Photography in Cygnet, Tasmania as part of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival’s Maritime Trail. In a sense this could be a the reference book for that talk. Its rich, and informative, and unlike most coffee table books (I hate that term!) has a substance that makes it cherishable and unlikely to end up on the nature strip on hard rubbish day.
The copy on the back cover puts it well.
A typical fishing harbour:the tentacular spread of a cargo port; a crystal clear cove; the ricochets of sunlight on a rolling swell; the weather beaten face of a globe trotter; or the unforgettable fury of a tidal wave that announces the brutal end of a peaceful, everyday existence-this volume of three hundred photographs pays tribute to the sea in its myriad facets
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The list of contributing artists reads like a whose who of 20th century photographers. Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, Walker Evans, Joel Meyerowitz, Robert Frank, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jacques Henri-Lartigue, André Kertez, Elliott Erwitt, Sebastiao Salgado, David Parker, Michael Kenna, Josef Koudelka.
Publisher: Flammarion
Trim Size: 9-1/4 x 8-3/4
Pages: 300
ISBN: 978-2-08-020263-5
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