Morandi's objects the complete archive of Casa Morandi
In the spring of 2015, the world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz spent time at Giorgio Morandi's studio at 36 via Fondazza in Bologna. The simple rooms where Morandi painted are awash with objects<U+2015>vases, tins, shells, bottles and jugs<U+2015>stacked on shelves, sideboards, chests of dra...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Bologna] :
Damiani,
[2026]
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| Summary: | In the spring of 2015, the world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz spent time at Giorgio Morandi's studio at 36 via Fondazza in Bologna. The simple rooms where Morandi painted are awash with objects<U+2015>vases, tins, shells, bottles and jugs<U+2015>stacked on shelves, sideboards, chests of drawers and overflowing onto the floor. Morandi would select these objects and arrange them on makeshift tables so that he could render them, and the light that fell upon them, attentively and deliberately in oil, watercolor and pencil, creating an elusive body of work that has influenced artists ever since. Some 50 years after Morandi died, in the very same space, using Morandi's surfaces and the same light source to cast the same shadows, Meyerowitz lived with the same objects. He carefully photographed every object in the studio, and, by instilling each with confidence and individuality, in turn, made them his own. Originally published in 2016, this expanded and revised edition includes more than 130 new photographs, a new essay by Amanda Renshaw and an updated bibliography. Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is a street, portrait and land |
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| Item Description: | Chiefly illustrated. |
| Physical Description: | 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9788862088565 8862088566 |
| Author Notes: | Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938) was trained as a painter, but an afternoon spent with Robert Frank in the early 1960s changed his destiny. In the years that followed, Meyerowitz dedicated himself to photography. In 1963 his work was selected by John Szarkowski, Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art to be included in the seminal exhibition The Photographer's Eye. Over the following decades he mastered black and white and became a pioneer of colour photography, instrumental in changing the art world's attitude to it being accepted as an art form. His photographs of the streets of New York and other American cities are iconic in the history of photography. He is internationally regarded as one of the most important and influential street photographers and has co-authored Bystander, the standard work on the genre. |
