Windscape

Bae Bien-U
9783775734974 / 377573497X
Windscape

Windscape

Bae Bien-U
9783775734974 / 377573497X
Publisher Hatje Cantz 2012
Edition Hardcover , 144 pages
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A contemporary master of landscape photography, the influential South Korean photographer Bae Bien-U (born 1950) received international acclaim for his last monograph, Sacred Wood. Windscape picks up where that volume left off, extending Bien-U’s exploration of nature to the animating presence of the wind among forests and rivers. The gentle dynamism of Bien-U’s black-and-white photographs is enhanced by their prolonged exposure, which endows them with the velvety ethereality of nineteenth-century photography (also conjuring the more recent work of Thomas Joshua Cooper). Trees and grass bend in the wind; cliffs and rocks are enveloped in sea spray and fog, and the horizon evaporates in the white-gray sky. The Korean ideogram for landscape is composed of the words “wind” and “scenery,” connoting the idea of a quintessence permeating all living things, and the neologistic title of this volume refers to this term, and to Bien-U’s philosophy of landscape.

Specifications

Book title Windscape
Photographer Bae Bien-U
ISBN 10 377573497X / 3-7757-3497-X       
ISBN 13 9783775734974 / 978-3-7757-3497-4
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Publish date Apr 2013
Publish year 2012
Book format Hardcover
Language English
Pages 144 pages
Number of photographs 62 illustrations
Dimensions 26,0 x 30,2 cm / 12 x 9.75 inches
Book designer Marc Naroska

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