Publisher's Description
Publisher Cancelled.
In the late nineteenth century,
artists such as Degas,Whistler
and Toulouse-Lautrec made interpretations
of Ukiyo-e, the
Japanese woodblock genre that
arose during the Edo—or “Floating
World”—period (c. 1620–1867).
More than a century later, Duane
Michals presents a modern variant
on the tradition. Inspired particularly
by the Ukiyo-e-influenced
work of Bonnard and Vuillard, and
the much earlier but sympathetic
painting of Vermeer,Michals’ color
shots fuse Eastern andWestern
models of quietude and reverie,
constructing little fictions that
embrace what one might call life’s
more “Japanese moments.”While
he has previously used color film
for commercial projects,
Photographs from the Floating
World marks the first instance in
which Michals has employed it for
his own photography. These
images describe discrete
moments with haiku brevity: a
flower in blossom, a woman waiting,
a man building a card house,
a cat starting at the ghost of his
master.
Book Information
ISBN:
3865219861
Publisher:
Steidl
Format:
Paperback, 64 pages
Language:
English
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