Clarence John Laughlin

Author : Keith F. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarence John Laughlin written by Keith F. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a much-needed reassessment of the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985). Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Laughlin lived most of his life in New Orleans, He discovered the literature of Baudelaire and the French Symbolists in the mid-1920s and began writing poetry and Gothic fiction at that time. In 1934, influenced by the work of Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Man Ray, and Atget, Laughlin took up photography. Devoted to the documentation of historic buildings and artifacts, Laughlin was at the same time committed to a highly personal application of photography to evoke the underlying mystery of the world. He used multiple exposures, theatrical arrangements, and lengthy captions to bridge the gap between the visible world and an allusive, metaphorical realm of intuition and fantasy. Laughlin's work seems particularly relevant today. The last decade of American photography has been characterized by an artistic focus on issues of theatricality, the tension between photographic truth and invention, and the linkage between world and pictures.

Author : A. J. Meek
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578069095
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarence John Laughlin written by A. J. Meek and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a New Orleans photographer of worldwide acclaim

Author : Clarence John Laughlin
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821223611
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunter of Ruins written by Clarence John Laughlin and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "Edgar Allan Poe with a camera", Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1984) reveals New Orleans at its most brooding and mysterious in 69 never-before-published images. Compiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers. 69 illustrations.

Author : Joshua Chuang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300141337
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Doubt written by Joshua Chuang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many photographers have been intrigued with the baffling distortions--both subtle and disquieting--that can occur when the camera "captures" the real world. Not always intentional, some images dazzle with impossible juxtapositions or disorienting spatial orders, while others confound the viewer's belief in the documentary promise of photography. Drawn from the highly respected collection of Allan Chasanoff, the photographs in this intriguing volume confront viewers with the challenge of doubt and confusion in so-called "straight" pictures. Featured are perceptually provocative images by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Clarence John Laughlin, Imogen Cunningham, and Lee Friedlander, among others. The book's essays raise awareness of the interpretive nature of the lens and the interpolative nature of the medium. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery (October 7, 2008 - January 4, 2009)

Author : A. J. Meek
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604737425
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Light written by A. J. Meek and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous European cathedrals such as Notre Dame in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London. Yet the splendors of local churches in America all too often remain cloistered and unheralded. Meek's beautiful photographs correct this oversight for Louisiana, a state that features a great many beautiful and long-standing holy places. Often incorporating long exposures and select framing, the images in the first section of Sacred Light encompass altars, chancels, and sanctuaries. The second section contains photographs of statues representing deities, angels, madonnas, and saints, often seen with intense color derived from stained-glass windows or artificial light. Light itself is the subject of the third and last section. In several photographs, light is transformed by a window into a kaleidoscope of color on a wooden pew or pulpit chair. Other times the light seems to radiate a living presence of its own. Additionally, the book includes an essay by Louisiana State University art historian and liturgical space consultant, Marchita B. Mauck. Sacred Light also contains photographs of some of the church and synagogue restoration projects after Hurricane Katrina. Meek relates that the now-famous storm of August 2005 was the shadow he was looking for that defines blessed light. He places emphasis on restoration, not destruction, as a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.

Author : Ellen Dugan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing the South written by Ellen Dugan and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has brought together more than 160 photographs taken since the Civil War era. This assembly documents the South's cultural heritage and psychological identity, as well as its transformation from a land decimated by war to the bustling New South of today.

Author : Clarence John Laughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517006085
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts Along the Mississippi written by Clarence John Laughlin and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Anthony Lewis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807142204
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects written by Richard Anthony Lewis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here. Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs's life and career, situating his work along the line of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and paintings to later twentieth-century photographs by John Clarence Laughlin, among others. Providing the family lineage and construction history of each home, Lewis discusses photographic techniques Tebbs used in his alternating panoramic and detail views. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos. His frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura to many of the images -- an effect compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist. This noticeable vacillation between objectivity and sentiment, Lewis shows, suggests unfamiliarity and even discomfort with the legacy of slavery. Poised on the brink of social and political reforms, Louisiana in the mid-1920s had made significant strides away from the slave-based agricultural economy that the plantation house often symbolized. Tebbs's Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a burgeoning national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. Select plantations included: Ashland/Belle Helene, Avery Island, Belle Chasse, Belmont, Butler-Greenwood, L'Hermitage, Oak Alley, Parlange, René Beauregard House, Rosedown, Seven Oaks, Shadows-on-the-Teche, The Shades, and Waverly.

Author : Barbara E. Savedoff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433757
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Images written by Barbara E. Savedoff and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author seeks to discern the distinctive character of photography as an art, asking why similar images affect us differently and how our reaction to a photograph of a painting is different to the response to the painting. She demonstrates "perceived realism" and the transformation of images.

Author : Guy Davenport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of the Forties written by Guy Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om 40'ernes malerkunst, skulpturer og kunsthåndværk