The Blue Room

Eugene Richards is best known for his books and photo essays on cancer, drug addiction, poverty, emergency medicine and paediatric HIV. His intense vision and unswerving commitment have led him to become arguably America’s greatest living social documentary photographer.

出版者:Phaidon

作者:Eugene Richards

页数:168

出版时间:2008-12-03

价格:USD 100.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780714848327

图书标签:摄影photographyEugene_Richards画册PhaidonEugeneRichards攝影集摄影画册

Eugene Richards is one of America’s greatest living social documentary photographers. His intense vision and unswerving commitment to documenting the plight of the disadvantaged has produced powerful work on topics such as drug addiction, poverty, the mentally disabled, ageing and the personal consequences of war. The Blue Room is his first colour project, a moving, highly personal project that brings together the themes that encompass all of Richards’ work – what he describes as the ‘transient nature of things’. The photographs are portraits of the abandoned and forgotten houses of western America in areas such as the plains of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and the Dakotas. In the early twentieth century, railroads lured settlers west with the promises of homesteads and towns rose across the plains. But in the wake of the Depression and the dust storms of the 1930s the towns faltered then failed. Richards enigmatic photographs of these forgotten homes are a meditation on memory and loss – family photographs stuck on a wall, a wedding dress hanging in a bedroom, snow falling on a bed by an open window, a wild horse standing at an open kitchen window. Richards’ contemplative, beautiful photographs inspire us to imagine the lives of the former occupants, and make a quiet statement on the inevitability of the circle of life and death, and the vulnerability of man in the face of shifting economic opportunities and the climate.

用户评价

全部是废弃农场和房屋的彩色照片，有点儿渗人，不特别好 但是颜色美极了

非常棒！美国废弃的农村房屋。彩色，静物。

看了就知道，文字无力！

非常棒！美国废弃的农村房屋。彩色，静物。

非常棒！美国废弃的农村房屋。彩色，静物。