Description: Beauty is everything in the way we judge and value the world, and each of Nadav Kander's photographs contains the ingredients of the beau tiful- unity and order; symmetry, harmony, and proportion. Vet beauty is simply the beguiling lure for Kander's disconcerting explorations into representation through genre as diverse as portraiture, landscape, and still life. He employs the seductive charm of the symptoms of beauty to probe questions of morality and desire and our inconsistent response to the female nude, and he undermines the tradition of representing majestic nature in idyllic views by focusing on the fragile imbalance of the American landscape with its endlessly repeating artifice at the edge of vast emptiness.Beauty's Nothing includes texts commissioned from seven of the finest contemporary writers and poets - Julia Alvarez, Peter Carey, Nick Cave, Rachel Cusk, Peter Josephs, J. T. LeRoy, and Gerard Malanga. They have each written or adapted an original piece in direct response to one or more of Kander's photographs. The book is composed of chapters of images, interleaved with the texts, which combine to elaborate multiple narratives.Nadav Kander has received international critical acclaim for his photography and is one of the most sought after photographers working today. This is his first monograph. (C1)
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Book Title: Nadav Kander : Beauty's Nothing
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Arena Editions
Item Length: 12 in
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 2001
Type: Picture Book
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Personalized: No
Author: John Yau, Nadav Kander
Genre: Photography
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy
Topic: General
Item Weight: 49 Oz
Item Width: 9.5 in
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
