Titel
Visual Journeys
Schrijver
Beny, Roloff, presented by Mitchell (Shelby) Crites, met een tekst van Lesley Blanch en Jeffrey Spalding
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9781550541670
Uitgever
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 1994
Prijs
€ 15,00
Bijzonderheden
255 pag., with 157 plates, 41 in colour, gebonden in okerkleurig linnen met stofomslag, in zeer goede staat, wel een kleine beschadiging bovenkant rug van de stofomslag
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition
Postuum uitgegeven
Bevat foto's uit:
The Thrones of Earth and Heaven
A Time of Gods
Pleasure of Ruins
To Every Thing There is a Season
Japan in Colour
India
Island Ceylon
In Italy
Persia, Bridge of Turquoise,
Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean
The Churches of Rome
The Gods of Greece
Iceland
Rajasthan, Land of Kings
The Romance of Architecture
Roloff Beny OC RCA (1924–1984) was a Canadian photographer who spent the better part of his life in Rome and on his photographic travels throughout the world. Born Wilfred Roy Beny in Medicine Hat, Alberta, he later took as his first name Roloff, his mother's maiden name.
Beny had a considerable reputation and exhibition record as the maker of progressive painting, drawing and printmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was recognized as one of the leading abstract artists of his day with works of the period exhibited and collected at that time by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada, among others. His work in painting, drawing and prints is discussed in Roloff Beny Visual Journeys.
His book To Every Thing There is a Season was presented to visiting heads of state during Canada's 1967 centennial celebration. In 1968 his book India was chosen by the Indian Government to celebrate the centenary of Gandhi's birth.[3]
Canada, as Beny remarked, had "no temples two thousand years old, no paths worn hard by passionate travelers." But the photographer soon found his way to those paths and temples in the course of "insatiable wanderings in Europe and Asia," and, above all, around the perimeter of the Mediterranean. Beny was in early days a protégé of Peggy Guggenheim and Herbert Read. The circle of friends around him—actors, artists, collectors, writers—included Laurence Olivier, Stephen Spender, Rose Macaulay, Bernard Berenson, Jean Cocteau, Henry Moore, and other makers of art and literature. His books have been published in America, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iran, and Japan.
Beny was obsessed with the beauty of the world. He has been called "a poetic photographer" and he was a passionate aesthete. His photographic journeys were recorded in a series of large-scale volumes which appeared over the years. Beny's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Yale University Art Gallery. "I see majestic ruins even in the architecture of the skies," he wrote in the Preface to his book, Pleasure of Ruins.
(bron: Wikipedia)
Mitchell Shelby Crites is an art historian specializing in Islamic and Indian art. He collaborated with Roloff Beny on a number of books during the seventies. .
Leslie Blanche, renowned author of 'The Wilder Shores of Love', 'Sables of Paradise' and many other books, travelled with Roloff Beny in Persia.
fotograaf - Canada
Postuum uitgegeven
Bevat foto's uit:
The Thrones of Earth and Heaven
A Time of Gods
Pleasure of Ruins
To Every Thing There is a Season
Japan in Colour
India
Island Ceylon
In Italy
Persia, Bridge of Turquoise,
Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean
The Churches of Rome
The Gods of Greece
Iceland
Rajasthan, Land of Kings
The Romance of Architecture
Roloff Beny OC RCA (1924–1984) was a Canadian photographer who spent the better part of his life in Rome and on his photographic travels throughout the world. Born Wilfred Roy Beny in Medicine Hat, Alberta, he later took as his first name Roloff, his mother's maiden name.
Beny had a considerable reputation and exhibition record as the maker of progressive painting, drawing and printmaking in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was recognized as one of the leading abstract artists of his day with works of the period exhibited and collected at that time by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Gallery of Canada, among others. His work in painting, drawing and prints is discussed in Roloff Beny Visual Journeys.
His book To Every Thing There is a Season was presented to visiting heads of state during Canada's 1967 centennial celebration. In 1968 his book India was chosen by the Indian Government to celebrate the centenary of Gandhi's birth.[3]
Canada, as Beny remarked, had "no temples two thousand years old, no paths worn hard by passionate travelers." But the photographer soon found his way to those paths and temples in the course of "insatiable wanderings in Europe and Asia," and, above all, around the perimeter of the Mediterranean. Beny was in early days a protégé of Peggy Guggenheim and Herbert Read. The circle of friends around him—actors, artists, collectors, writers—included Laurence Olivier, Stephen Spender, Rose Macaulay, Bernard Berenson, Jean Cocteau, Henry Moore, and other makers of art and literature. His books have been published in America, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iran, and Japan.
Beny was obsessed with the beauty of the world. He has been called "a poetic photographer" and he was a passionate aesthete. His photographic journeys were recorded in a series of large-scale volumes which appeared over the years. Beny's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Yale University Art Gallery. "I see majestic ruins even in the architecture of the skies," he wrote in the Preface to his book, Pleasure of Ruins.
(bron: Wikipedia)
Mitchell Shelby Crites is an art historian specializing in Islamic and Indian art. He collaborated with Roloff Beny on a number of books during the seventies. .
Leslie Blanche, renowned author of 'The Wilder Shores of Love', 'Sables of Paradise' and many other books, travelled with Roloff Beny in Persia.
fotograaf - Canada
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