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The Desert Hardcover – February 17, 2001

by Raymond Depardon (Author)
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For the exhibition The Desert presented in 2000, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain asked a selection of international artists to visit deserts and produce a work that would reflect their vision of that terrain. The works executed for the occasion reveal the contradictions of the desert: a space of unity and contrast where the static contrasts with the perpetual movement of the dunes shifting in the wind. Threatened with obliteration and disappearance, the urgency of capturing the trace of the desert finds an answer in photography and drawings. This book gathers both previously published and specially produced new works by Lara Baldi, Balthasar Burkhard, Raymond Depardon, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Titouan Lamazou, Beat Streuli, and Andrei Ujica.

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  1. Print length
    208 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
  4. Publication date
    February 17, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    11.46 x 1.16 x 11.35 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0500974918
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0500974919
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This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, presented last year at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Depardon, a filmmaker, photographer, and reporter, collaborated with Mounira Khemir (photography historian), Sir Wilfred Thesiger (explorer and naturalist), and Paul Virilio ("urbanist" and essayist) to create this exhibit catalog, which celebrates the mystery and solitude of the desert as interpreted by 19th- and 20th-century photographers. Some of the images were commissioned for the book. Subjects include the Lunar Highlands, the Sonora Desert in Arizona, the Saharan Desert in Timbuktu and Mali, and deserts in California, Utah, Libya, the Sinai Peninsula, Niger, Chad, Algeria, Tunisia, Namibia, and Red Centre, Australia. The contemporary approaches include multimedia, collage, film stills, overpainted images, and classical black-and-white views of the f64 school. We see beautiful drifts of sand and cacti but also abandoned autos and other refuse, telephone poles marching across unending space, and ugly commercial signs. The most compelling images were made nearly a century or more ago, but notable among the modern images are those by Legado Ortiz Echag?e, photographing in Morocco in 1964. The book has beautiful reproductions and short textual pieces as varied as the photographs. Recommended for fine art and historical photography collections. Kathleen Collins, Bank of America Corporate Archives, San Francisco
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The juxtaposition is brilliant, exploring the impact of the desert on centuries of highly sensitized pilgrims. It's a wonderful surprise. -- Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, 10 March 2001

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; First Edition (February 17, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500974918
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500974919
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.46 x 1.16 x 11.35 inches
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