Verdigris / Ambergris Joan Fontcuberta literature and art

literature and art

It is both a difficult subject and a lofty prospect for any photographer and it remains an absolutely essential line of investigation

Photographs

lurching change in Britain

After the advent of the motorcar in the early twentieth century

Verdigris / Ambergris Joan Fontcuberta literature and artVerdigris Ambergris completes a twelve year suite of works by Paul Graham focused on lifes transience and our mortality. This pair of sibling books is centered on people scanning the infinite horizon as they look out over land (Verdigris) and sea (Ambergris). Interleaved with these contemplative portraits in the first volume are images of cherry blossoms and in the second images of the setting sun. These photographs are made respectively in a park