Grim Street

出版者:powerHouse Books

作者:Mark Cohen

页数:142

出版时间:2005-1-1

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781576872307

具体描述

Mark Cohen is a restless poet of a photographer. In GRIM STREET he demonstrates his enormous ability to grasp a winking moment of life in the back streets, isolated fleeting views of the ordinary made extraordinary. This very fine book of photographs is less attuned to compositionally correct images as emotionally charged ones. As such it is a monograph of the smarmy, dark, seedy and at times embarrassingly immediate life of the underbelly of America as represented by the streets of Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Cohen's successful forays in to this territory are accompanied by 'interviews' conducted by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Thomas Southall. The composite result is a book that 'reads' like a novel and will remain compelling present in the mind's eye long after perusing it. Fine work! Grady Harp, August 05

"A lot of it is mood driven, but I don't exactly know where the motive and inspiration to take pictures comes from. So it's very spontaneous work; there's not a lot really to plan." So it would seem at first glance upon Mark Cohen's masterful collection of work presented in his first (and hopefully not last) book Grim Street . From this revealing quote by the author, we are lead to believe that Cohen himself discovers in his darkroom much of the beauty portrayed in his work.

As anyone who has followed Cohen's work knows, Mark has been influenced greatly by the renowned street photographer Cartier-Bresson with his ability to capture the unfolding "decisive moment." But Cohen's work is anything but unfolding, on the contrary; it is literally in-your-face obtrusive, grabbing on film fleeting sublime moments, otherwise lost forever in eternity. One can almost amusingly imagine Cohen, armed with his trade mark flash and wide angle lens, scurrying around a photo-opportunity with Bresson. While Bresson contemplates from a distance the "decisive moment" to release the shutter; Cohen (in his own words) uses "grab shots" often without even the use of a viewfinder to capture what could be called "multiple moments." It is apparent from this exquisite body of work that Mark Cohen is the heir apparent to the recently deceased Bresson, and, one might say, an "impatient" 21st Century updated version of the master.

Ignoring for a moment the obvious psychological and sociological content of Cohen's work, the visual subject matter of Grim Street is indeed at first glance difficult to digest. It is anything but "cheery", often times seedy, sometimes voyeuristic, and occasionally downright lascivious. But the ultimate irony is that these qualities of course are passing and superficial, as fleeting as Cohen's flick of the shutter. For it's only with pausing and contemplating the work that the disquieting subject matter "disappears" and the true mastery reappears. That perfect wisp of hair, that "just so" turn of a cat's tail, that flawlessly lit foreground and carefully nuanced background, those repeating diagonals inside exquisite compositions, and all the artistic universals that forever have withstood the test of time, are there to be discovered in this collection.

May this reviewer be so bold as to suggest an answer to Mr. Cohen's own query about the source of his inspiration referred to earlier? A grim street is down-and-dirty, mean and often times dangerous. Surely there is no inspiration to be found in such a secular reality, unless one has the genius and magical gift to capture a transcendent glimpse of a more perfect place. The source of that gift, the inspiration is not temporal. Undoubtedly we're all traveling on a type of "grim street." Thank God we have inspired and graced artists such as Mark Cohen to give us an occasional glance at our idyllic destination.

用户评价

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老实说，《Grim Street》这本书的风格真是让我惊艳！它完全颠覆了我之前对同类型小说的固有认知。整本书营造出一种非常独特的氛围，既有哥特式的神秘感，又带着一丝现代都市的疏离。我特别喜欢作者在人物塑造上的处理，每一个角色都显得那么真实，他们身上都有着人性的弱点和复杂的动机。没有绝对的好人或坏人，每个人都在自己的人生困境中挣扎，做出自己的选择。我尤其被其中一个配角所吸引，尽管他的戏份不算太多，但他的一举一语都充满了深意，仿佛在暗示着更宏大的背景故事。这本书的节奏也非常巧妙，有紧张刺激的冲突，也有令人喘息的平静时刻，这种起伏让我始终保持着高度的兴趣。我很少遇到一本能够同时在情节、人物和氛围上都做得如此出色的作品。它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一次深刻的体验，让我思考良多。

一条充满生活细节的街！

一些因为太近而显得支离破碎，几乎没有环境的影像，小女孩儿的膝盖和袜子，抱着一只狗的手臂，很多没有头的半身，占据大半个画面的泡泡糖，牙齿残缺的大笑，（土土翻了一遍，一边翻一边说“不喜欢，不喜欢，这个人拍的不好”），我倒是觉得很难忘，这样的近距离让本来很粗俗的画面显得有些抽象，当然不是那种唯美的抽象，就是不太真实。

一条充满生活细节的街！

一些因为太近而显得支离破碎，几乎没有环境的影像，小女孩儿的膝盖和袜子，抱着一只狗的手臂，很多没有头的半身，占据大半个画面的泡泡糖，牙齿残缺的大笑，（土土翻了一遍，一边翻一边说“不喜欢，不喜欢，这个人拍的不好”），我倒是觉得很难忘，这样的近距离让本来很粗俗的画面显得有些抽象，当然不是那种唯美的抽象，就是不太真实。

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