Close to Home

An American Album

J.D. Waldie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2004
J Paul Getty Trust Publications,US (Verlag)
978-0-89236-771-9 (ISBN)

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A Siamese cat beneath a clothesline...three women with linked arms standing on the front lawn...a man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition (to be held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005), which celebrate snapshots - "found" photographs by anonymous photographers - that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained photographers whose images can be unexpectedly lyrical and moving. Complementing the photographs is an essay by noted Southern California writer D. J. Waldie. The snapshot, he says, "depending on who's doing the looking, is horrifying, hilarious, pointless, or suffused with yearning." Waldie speculates on the meanings and implications of the snapshots in this book and of snapshots generally, which he sees as expressions of "the hunger of memory."

D.J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir; Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out and Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles. His reviews and commentaries appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2006
Zusatzinfo	115 b&w and 15 colour photographs
Verlagsort	Santa Monica CA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10	0-89236-771-7 / 0892367717
ISBN-13	978-0-89236-771-9 / 9780892367719
Zustand	Neuware