Description for IOWA
Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6466 x 6466. Weight in Grams: 681.
In the early 1970s, Nancy Rexroth began photographing the rural landscapes, children, white frame houses, and domestic interiors of southeastern Ohio with a plastic toy camera called the Diana. Working with the camera's properties of soft focus and vignetting, and further manipulating the photographs by deliberately blurring or sometimes overlaying them, Rexroth created dreamlike, poetic images of my own private landscape, a state of mind. She called this state IOWA because the photographs seemed to reference her childhood summer visits to relatives in Iowa. Rexroth self-published her evocative images in 1977 in the book IOWA, and the photographic ... Read more
In the early 1970s, Nancy Rexroth began photographing the rural landscapes, children, white frame houses, and domestic interiors of southeastern Ohio with a plastic toy camera called the Diana. Working with the camera's properties of soft focus and vignetting, and further manipulating the photographs by deliberately blurring or sometimes overlaying them, Rexroth created dreamlike, poetic images of my own private landscape, a state of mind. She called this state IOWA because the photographs seemed to reference her childhood summer visits to relatives in Iowa. Rexroth self-published her evocative images in 1977 in the book IOWA, and the photographic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
680g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477310410
SKU
V9781477310410
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Ref
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About Nancy Rexroth
Nancy Rexroth's work is held by major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A member of Magnum Photos and the publisher of Little Brown Mushroom ... Read more
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