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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSteidl Gmbh & Co. Ohg
ISBN-103865212077
ISBN-139783865212078
eBay Product ID (ePID)50572024
Product Key Features
Book TitlePicturing Eden
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, General, Subjects & Themes / Religious, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Photography
AuthorDeborah Klochko
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Photographed byMann, Sally, Soth, Alec
Number of Volumes1 vol.
SynopsisEden or paradise, that place of perfect happiness, is an ideal that resonates across times and cultures. Picturing Eden assembles the work of contemporary photographers looking for their own paradises, some from a place of contemplation and restoration, some from a place of loneliness and despair. The differences between the heavens they seek and the comparatively dark, messy earth they are limited to charge their work with both political and environmental concerns--this is no heaven. And yet sometimes they make it seem so. By looking at the notion of paradise and the garden through the photographic lens, the book highlights the original lost innocence and the ongoing significance of a humanistic environment, and considers paradise's place in the history of art. Picturing Eden includes work from Adam Fuss, Alec Soth, Doug and Mike Starn and Sally Mann among others., Eden or paradise, that place of perfect happiness, is an ideal that resonates across times and cultures. Picturing Eden assembles the work of contemporary photographers looking for their own paradises, some from a place of contemplation and restoration, some from a place of loneliness and despair.