Zoe Strauss, 10 years
New Haven, CT: Philadelphia Museum of Art / In Association with Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Color illustrated dj with white text, color illustrated board. 269 pp. Color illustrations. VG (exlibrary with stickers on spine and back of dj, sticker on spine of boards, stamp inside cover. all else excellent). Item #215902
ISBN: 9780876332344
"With little formal training as a photographer or artist, Zoe Strauss (b. 1970) founded the Philadelphia Public Art Project in 1995 with the aim of exhibiting art in nontraditional venues. Five years later, she began using photography as the most direct means of representing her chosen subjects. Zoe Strauss: 10 Years offers a midcareer assessment of Strauss's achievement to date, and the first full account of her celebrated ten-year project, beginning in 2001, to exhibit her photographs under an elevated section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. Strauss's troubling and sometimes touching images focus primarily on American working-class experience, to convey what she calls "an epic narrative that reflects the beauty and struggle of everyday life." Generously illustrated, this book includes nearly 200 photographs--135 of them published here for the first time--along with images that document her I-95 exhibitions. With essays by Peter Barberie and Sally Stein, plus a text by the artist herself, a bibliography, and a chronology, this is the most definitive publication to date about this important young artist."
OCLC: 758845564
Price: $35.00