Were it not for
By: Michael Ashkin
Publisher: Fw: Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789490119805
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Landscape photography; Pictorial works; Artistic Photography
Other titles: Michael Ashkin :
Work titles: Photographs
Description: "Michael Ashkin works across a range of media--painting, photography, sculpture, video, and text. Uniting these diverse practices is a conceptual focus on the way that notions of space and place, landscape and self, are shaped by wider political and economic forces. "Were it not for" is combining a 670-line text with 218 photographs of the Mojave Desert. This combination creates a powerful sense of unease throughout the document, which is exploring the idea of fear and haunting as an effect of the violent legacies contained within the landscape, and as a function of the technologies that we use to represent it"--
Notes: Chiefly illustrated.

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"Were it not for was edited at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Hambidge Center and was funded in part by Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning"--Colophon.