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Between the landscape and its other
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- Creator
- Paul Vanderbilt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801842581, 9780801842580
- OCLC
- ocm25130612
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also issued online.
- Foreword / H. Nicholas Muller III -- Introduction / George A. Talbot -- 1. The landscape connection reaches out -- 2. and touches sparks in personality -- 3. to find hidden values -- 4. Paul Strand's photographic metaphors -- 5. exercise the stretched attention span -- 6. Cumulative effect: The FSA project, a stimulant -- 7. Subcollections as an art form -- 8. based on overstimulated association -- 9. are best reduced to simple pairings -- 10. Electricity in the landscape -- 11. stimulates perception of shapes and surfaces -- 12. and gives it character -- 13. Active and passive dimensions -- 14. define the limits of space -- 15. but miniature details are vigorous in miniature space -- 16. Obvious features such as the flooded forest -- 17. dead and fallen trees -- 18. openings -- 19. new stuctures grafted onto the old -- 20. and graphic effects on the land invite special attention -- 21. Expressive lines -- 22. and curves in the search for Being -- 23. Landscape as a stage set -- 24. The sense of something strange -- 25. leads to Magic in the landscape -- 26. a residual vision from an ancient past -- 27. One is not intended to know -- 28. the rational meanings -- 29. Free association in words to accompany pictures -- 30. is natural to intuitive understanding of -- 31. the secondary order evolved from chaos -- 32. Nothingness as a subject -- 33. The virtues of vagueness and the art principle that makes vagueness work -- 34. Quantity and its distillation as quality, monitored by cynicism -- 35. The photograph superior to its subject -- 36. and to precise verbal description -- 37. The study of relationships may involve either actual proximity -- 38. or a sympathy between outer extremities -- 39. Future prospects -- 40. involving collections of photographs and working methods -- 41. that develop comparative iconography -- 42. a broader view of life-styles -- 43. The Amencan Middle West as a laboratory for the common man -- 44. The life of a picture -- 45. extended through complexities and dance -- 46. Connotative illustration and its sources in imagination -- 47. need selective resources refined to practical limits