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.
By:
Wilfred Thesiger, etc. Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 280mm,
Width: 282mm,
Spine: 29mm
Weight: 300g ISBN:9780500974919 ISBN 10: 0500974918 Pages: 236 Publication Date:21 March 2001 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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A / AS level
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Raymond Depardon is a French photographer, filmmaker, and journalist. He has published more than fifty books on photography. William Eggleston (b. 1939) lives in Memphis, Tennessee.