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Overview"Photographer Moyra Davey takes quiet but ravishing photographs of typically overlooked and banal objects. Newspapers, dust, books, money, empty bottles, and the things on top of refrigerators all figure in series of pictures that bring viewers into a state of increased sensitivity to their everyday lives. ""Long Life Cool White"" features forty-five of the artist's photographs from the past two decades.Davey's relationship to such traditions as street and conceptual photography and French surrealism can be seen throughout these pages. Noted scholar Helen Molesworth examines the domestic content of Davey's work as well as Davey's burgeoning career as a writer. The book also includes Davey's insightful essay 'Notes on Photography and Accident', in which she discusses the themes of chance, death, and the poetic that occur in the writings of three major theorists of photography: Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and Susan Sontag." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Moyra Davey , Helen MolesworthPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.80cm Weight: 0.322kg ISBN: 9780300136463ISBN 10: 0300136463 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 01 April 2008 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMoyra Davey is a New York-based photographer and writer. Helen Molesworth is the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard University Art Museums. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |