IOWA
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 147731041X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 Bibliothéque Nationale de France, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.A member of Magnum Photos and the publisher of Little Brown Mushroom Press, Alec Soth is a photographer who has published over twenty-five
Aperture published a portfolio of IOWA images in a special issue, The Snapshot, alongside the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and Emmet Gowin. 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. 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and photobook collectors, IOWA is now available in a hardcover edition that includes twenty-two previously unpublished images. New postscripts by Nancy Rexroth and Mark L. 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 photo
"IOWA is so fresh. 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 curator of photographs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and author of Colo