IOWA
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 147731041X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Long out of print and highly prized by photographers and photobook collectors, IOWA is now available in a hardcover edition that includes twenty-two previously unpublished images. The International Center for Photography, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution included IOWA images in group exhibitions.Forty years after its original publication, IOWA has become a classic of fine art photography, a renowned demonstration of Rexroth's ability to fashion a world of surprising aesthetic possibilities using a simple, low-tech dollar camera. Rexroth self-published her evocative images in 1977 in the book IOWA, and the photographic community responded immediately and strongly to the work. Accompanying the photographs are a new foreword by Magnum photographer and book maker Alec Soth and an essay by internationally acclaimed curator Anne Wilkes Tucker, who affirms the continuing power and importance of IOWA within the photobook genre. Power, who wrote the essay in the first edition, complete the volume.. In the early 1970s, Nancy Rexroth began photographing the rural landscapes, ch
This is a feminine eye and a brave one." (Anne Wilkes Tucker, from “Nancy Rexroth”)"'Talking about dreams is like talking about movies,’ Federico Fellini once said, ‘years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another.’ The place where Rexroth’s images take us isn’t really Iowa; it is, to borrow from the title of another film, her own private Iowa." (Alec Soth, from “Rexroth’s Strawberries”)"IOWA is unique in all of photographic history." (John Rohrbach, senior
. Power is a photographer and photography educator whose works are in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, and other collections. 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 Bibliothé