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Monument
Over the years, Lynn Davis has become widely celebrated for her large-scale photographs of "monuments" of the human and natural landscape. Her forth-coming monograph, Monument, presents images made in Egypt, Australia, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Lebanon, Greenland, and the United States. Whether depicting the ancient pyramids of Giza, the temples of Cambodia, or the icebergs of Greenland, Davis articulates both the omnipotent forces of nature and the most resolute building endeavors ever undertaken by man. Davis' aesthetic is cool and refined; her sparse composition and controlled modelling of light evoke solitude and contemplation. Since a 1986 visit to Greenland to photograph icebergs, travel has become an essential component of her work, building on the long-standing tradition of travel photography. Her minimal imagery displays a quiet reverence for the beauty and grace of her subjects, and a thoughtful appreciation for their creators' accomplishment. These photographs are accompanied by texts by Patti Smith and Rudolph Wurlitzer that contemplate the sheer beauty of Davis' photography and the context of travel in which they are produced.
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Hardcover
First published July 31, 1999
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April 3, 2008
from Patti Smith's introduction:
"Where black is bright as dead. Where all things are another. Where the sea is the desert. Where decay is transformation. Where ice is bone is torso. Stone is the mottled skin of a guardian. The spine of a delicate temple. The organs of a ruin. The shadows of Yemen-- the musical ribs of the earh. The vast insufferable curve of a wall.
"Where external space leads into inner space. Where the spray of a fall is as dense as the mane of a horse. Where a man disintegrates into rainbow."
"Where black is bright as dead. Where all things are another. Where the sea is the desert. Where decay is transformation. Where ice is bone is torso. Stone is the mottled skin of a guardian. The spine of a delicate temple. The organs of a ruin. The shadows of Yemen-- the musical ribs of the earh. The vast insufferable curve of a wall.
"Where external space leads into inner space. Where the spray of a fall is as dense as the mane of a horse. Where a man disintegrates into rainbow."
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