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| Edgar Martins: Topologies | 
 enlarge | Author: John Beardsley
Creators: David Campany, Edgar Martins
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 358320
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 9.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1597110574
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.36092
EAN: 9781597110570
ASIN: 1597110574
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
With artful composition and controlled framing--but no digital manipulation--Edgar Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often un-beautiful sites. Minimalist nighttime beaches, forests ravaged by fires and Iceland's stark terrain have all served as subjects for his large-scale color photographs. He also explores the unexpected impact of Modernism on the landscape, including startlingly graphic airport runways and colorful highway barriers that, at first glance, read like abstract murals. Certain themes recur throughout Martins' work. A sense of place and alienation from it. A sense of mystery-vividly embodied in scenes such as a woman with a bouquet of balloons on a deserted shore. And a sense that something unsettling has just happened or is about to happen--a fire, an accident, a close encounter with some unspecified danger. As John Beardsley notes, "Some images are what we habitually expect photography to be--evidence of the world as we think we know it--while others obscure their subjects through an illusionism that borders on magic."
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Fine book of great photographer July 3, 2008
This is a gorgeous book and represents Edgar Martins work well.. In addition the text and interviews are informative. I liked my copy so much that I bought another copy as a present to my brother.
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