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Harry Gruyaert
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This book will appeal to enthusiasts of photography and visual arts, particularly those interested in the evolution of colour photography and artistic innovation. It is suitable for both professional photographers and admirers of contemporary arts and culture.
Harry Gruyaert was one of the European photographers to explore the creative potential of colour in the 1970s and 1980s. This book brings together his work, including images from his renowned 1972 series TV Shots and the later Made in Belgium, in one beautifully produced volume.
'Stunning ... not only showcases Gruyaert's outstanding work, but also the important role he played in establishing colour photography as an art form' Aesthetica
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Harry Gruyaert was one of the first European photographers to explore the creative potential of colour in the 1970s and 1980s. Influenced by American photographers as well as by cinema, his work defined new territory for colour photography: an emotive, non-narrative and boldly graphic way of perceiving the world.
In 1972, while living in London, he created the striking series TV Shots by turning the dial on a television set at random and photographing the distorted images he saw there. A later series, Made in Belgium, portrays his ambivalent relationship with his homeland in a palette of saturated tones.
Born in Antwerp in 1941, and a member of Magnum Photos since 1982, he has embraced the possibilities of digital photography in his most recent work, feeling that it allows him to take more risks and to capture light in new ways. Harry Gruyaert's images are autonomous and self-sufficient, often independent of any context or thematic logic.
This volume, the first retrospective of his work, is a superb overview of his personal quest for freedom of expression and the liberation of the senses.
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The Herald, Glasgow praises the collection, noting that Gruyaert’s photographs find beauty in everyday moments—whether in a raincloud, flaking paint, or a string of lightbulbs—transforming the banal into captivating imagery through his unique vision.
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ISBN: 9780500544488
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 June 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 290.0mm
Height: 270.0mm
Weight: 1270g
Pages: 144
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François Hébel is a distinguished photography curator. Director of 'Les Rencontres Arles Photographie' Festival, France, from 2001 to 2014, he is now director of the Foto Industrie Bologna Biennale, and is also overseeing the creation of the new Caribbean Image festival in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. He was formerly vice president of the Corbis Photo Agency and was also the director of Magnum Photos Paris.
Richard Nonas worked as an anthropologist for 10 years, doing field-work on American Indians in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona. He turned to sculpture in the mid-1960s at age 30.
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