THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALE by Paul Graham

イギリス人フォトグラファー、Paul Graham(ポール・グラハム)の作品集。本書は1998年から2011年までに出版された「American Night」「a shimmer of possibility」そして「The Present」の三作品を収録。この三つの写真集はそれぞれ現代アメリカの社会組織についての熟考でありながら、今存在する世界の探求でもある。「American Night」(2003) は光と闇、存在と欠落などの対立を通してアメリカの社会的格差を探求する作品。眩しい光の中で撮影された、ほぼ何も見えないイメージや、その対照としてカリフォルニアの青空の下で住宅街が色濃く撮られた作品が収録されている。「a shimmer of possibility」(2007) は、小さきものや偶然の美しさを謳う叙事詩である。12枚の写真が映画的な俳句となり、アメリカの日常を描く。写真の中でバスを待ったり、芝生を刈ったり、タバコを吸ったりする人々を捉えた一冊。本書は2011年のパリ・フォトブック・プライズを受賞し、過去15年間で一番重要なフォトブックと表彰された。「The Present」(2011) は、ニューヨークの街路で撮られた作品。同じ光景を秒違いで撮影した写真が2枚ずつ繰り出される。現在とは止まることのない時間の暫定的で儚い一部分に過ぎないことが伝わってくる。本書はサンフランシスコのギャラリー「Pier 24」で行われた展覧会に併せて発行。David ChandlerとStanley Wolukau-Wanambwaによるテキストを収録。

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The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham’s three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience of being and seeing in the world today. American Night (2003) examines the social fracture of America – the great divide between have and have-not rendered through the dichotomy of light and darkness, presence and absence. The images oscillate between high-key near invisible photographs in bright light, and the antithesis – deeply saturated colour images of freshly minted homes glowing under California’s blue skies. a shimmer of possibility (2007), is an American epic of the small and incidental. Originally published as twelve photographic visions of everyday life, the stuttering sequences form a kind of 'filmic haiku', revealing the flow of life found in quotidian America, where we share moments with people waiting for a bus, cutting the grass, or smoking a cigarette. a shimmer of possibility was winner of the 2011 Paris Photo Book Prize for the most significant Photobook of the past 15 years. The Present (2011) taken in the streets of New York, and unfolds two images of the same scene separated only by the briefest fraction of time. Here the present is revealed to be a fleeting and provisional alignment, glimpsed as part of an ever flowing continuum of life: before/after, coming/going, either/or. The luxurious catalogue is printed in wide gamut inks on natural white paper, and coincides with the first solo exhibition at Pier 24, San Francisco. It includes newly commissioned texts by David Chandler and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.

by Paul Graham

REGULAR PRICE ¥9,900  (tax incl.)

hardcover in a box
240 pages
240 x 305 mm
color
2015

winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2009

published by MACK

SIGNED VERDIGRIS / AMBERGRIS by Paul Graham [SIGNED]
SIGNED TROUBLED LAND by Paul Graham [SIGNED]
TROUBLED LAND by Paul Graham
SIGNED BEYOND CARING by Paul Graham [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT A1 - THE GREAT NORTH ROAD by Paul Graham [FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING]
SOLD OUT A1 - THE GREAT NORTH ROAD by Paul Graham [FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING / SIGNED]
BUT STILL, IT TURNS by Paul Graham (ed.)
SOLD OUT MOTHER by Paul Graham [SIGNED]
SIGNED A SHIMMER OF POSSIBILITY by Paul Graham [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT PARIS 11-15TH NOVEMBER, 2015 by Paul Graham
SOLD OUT DOES YELLOW RUN FOREVER? by Paul Graham
SOLD OUT DOES YELLOW RUN FOREVER? by Paul Graham [SIGNED]
SOLD OUT 1981 & 2011 by Paul Graham
SOLD OUT THE PRESENT by Paul Graham [SPECIAL EDITION]
SOLD OUT FILMS by Paul Graham
SOLD OUT END OF AN AGE by Paul Graham
SOLD OUT HASSELBLAD AWARD - CELEBRATING PHOTOGRAPHY