A Kind of Rapture
by Robert Bergman
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 067944257X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679442578
- Seller
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Volume and glossy, price unclipped DJ are in "As New Condition." From the front DJ flap, "For more than ten years, Robert Bergmann - a brilliant artist who has purposefully withheld himself from the mainstream - has traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt...and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. Even as he used a simple 35-mm camera, amateur film, no tripod and no special lighting, his was a monumental, Whitmanesqe project: to document the physical appearance and spirit of Americans at the approach of the millenium, and to gauge the climate of our times."
Synopsis
Every now and then, the art world offers up an unlikely story, and Robert Bergman's is one of them. He was born in New Orleans and raised mostly in Minneapolis. He began taking and developing snapshots at age 6, and save for a few teenage years he has strived to be a great photographer-artist ever since. But he has remained an out-of-step one, isolated from contemporary tastes, a cult figure to the few who have seen his work in person or in a 1998 book. The 65-year-old photographer went his own way over the past four decades, never selling a work until two years ago, but he nevertheless is about to burst onto the scene with two museum exhibitions, and next month he will have his first show at a commercial gallery, Yossi Milo in Chelsea, New York City. —From The Wall Street Journal review by JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI
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- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- bc1803933
- Title
- A Kind of Rapture
- Author
- Robert Bergman
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067944257X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679442578
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998-11-03
- Keywords
- Robert Bergman - Exhibition Catalogue
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