Barbara Crane's subjects are commonplace: a piece of driftwood, a cluster of wild mushrooms, a crowd of commuters rushing for the train. The resulting photographs, however, are far from ordinary. They are imaginative, peculiar, jarring, and, like their creator, defy easy explanation. For more than sixty years, Crane has forged her own path as a photographer. Lacking a darkroom, she began using Polaroid materials. Lacking suitable models, she paid her children to pose. Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision celebrates this ...
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Barbara Crane's subjects are commonplace: a piece of driftwood, a cluster of wild mushrooms, a crowd of commuters rushing for the train. The resulting photographs, however, are far from ordinary. They are imaginative, peculiar, jarring, and, like their creator, defy easy explanation. For more than sixty years, Crane has forged her own path as a photographer. Lacking a darkroom, she began using Polaroid materials. Lacking suitable models, she paid her children to pose. Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision celebrates this Chicagoan's wide-ranging art with a gorgeous collection of more than 250 color and black and white photographs. "Once I developed my first role of film in 1948," Crane notes, "nothing else mattered." Spanning the breadth of her career, from early studies of the human form to long narrow landscapes evoking Asian scrolls; from silver gelatin and platinum prints to present-day digital works, it is by far the largest and most definitive overview of her work to date. Replete with a critical analysis by John Rohrbach and a biographical essay by Abigail Foerstner, it will delight and challenge anyone interested in contemporary photography.
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Add this copy of Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision to cart. $45.99, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
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New in new dust jacket. in shrinkwrap. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 252 p. Contains: Halftones, black & white. Audience: General/trade.
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Very good. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Illustrated by Ed Muller. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 093890342X. Barbara Crane (1928-2019) was an innovative and pioneering Chicago photographer whose work is featured in numerous collections. This book was published in conjunction with her Challenging Vision exhibitions in Fort Worth in 2009 & Chicago in 2009-2010 and is a retropective monograph with 285 images. This is a large format, oversize oblong book in the publisher's original gray cloth covers with blindstamped spine and title lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket has a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel, else it is in similarly nice condition no chips or markings. The dust jacket is now in a protective, removable, acetate cover. Size: 10.75" x 12"; B&W & Color Photographs; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 252 pages.
Add this copy of Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision to cart. $145.00, like new condition, Sold by Design Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs,.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Artist. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. SIGNED by the photographer, Barbara Crane, in ink on the title-page. Not inscribed to anyone just signed. Stated first edition. Introduction by Kenneth Burkhart. Essays by John Rohrbach and Abigail Foerstner. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color with Barbara Crane's photographs. 11" high X 12" wide, 252 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Add this copy of Barbara Crane Challenging Vision to cart. $2,470.00, new condition, Sold by BWS Bks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferndale, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by University of Chicago Press (Distribution).
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New. 093890342X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 252 pp. With 314 ills. (114 col., one foldout). 28 x 30 cm. --with a bonus offer--
