Greg Girard: In the near Distance
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190,00€
About
In the near Distance is a monograph from the reknown Canadian photographer Greg Girard. The book documents his early travels when he was a teenager, taking pictures at night in Asian cities.
In the Near Distance 1973-86 is the document of Greg Girards early wanderings, the adolescent search for prospects and aims: nocturnal street sceneries, portraits of “sailors and friends”, images of creatures of the night and hotel rooms. In addition to black-and-white-materials Girard mainly used color slides during those years – and thus adds a new and important body of work to the color photography of the seventies. Consciously Girard uses the light of neon lamps and electric bulbs, explores the very particular, slightly shifted color temperatures of the slides and approaches a creative stylistic device that he brings to perfection in his work “Phantom Shanghai”, published in 2007. Inspired by the aesthetics of seventies movies, the literature of Peter Handke and by Asian culture, Girard very early finds an individual imagery, in which he strikingly captures his visual impressions, his emotions, as well as the atmosphere of the different places and stations of his journeys.
About the author
Greg Girard is a canadian photographer born in 1955 in Vancouver. Based in Shanghai is documenting the changes taking place in China and other Asian countries.
The book is in very good condition. The front right corner of the *Dusk Jacket* is very slightly creased and the spine is a little yellowed (see photo). The book is in perfect condition.
Paperback, 96 pages
Limited edition /500
Numbered, not signed
First edition
Published by Kominek Books in 2010
