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PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.75 in. / 144 pgs / 62 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 94   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775734974 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CDN $72.50

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TERRITORY
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Contemporary South Korean photographer Bae Bien-U uses prolonged exposure in his black-and-white landscape photographs to visualize the presence of the wind

  

HATJE CANTZ

Bae Bien-U: Windscape

Edited by Wonkyung Byun. Text by Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch, Chiba Shigeo.

A contemporary master of landscape photography, the influential South Korean photographer Bae Bien-U (born 1950) received international acclaim for his last monograph, Sacred Wood. Windscape picks up where that volume left off, extending Bien-U's exploration of nature to the animating presence of the wind among forests and rivers. The gentle dynamism of Bien-U's black-and-white photographs is enhanced by their prolonged exposure, which endows them with the velvety ethereality of nineteenth-century photography (also conjuring the more recent work of Thomas Joshua Cooper). Trees and grass bend in the wind; cliffs and rocks are enveloped in sea spray and fog, and the horizon evaporates in the white-gray sky. The Korean ideogram for landscape is composed of the words "wind" and "scenery," connoting the idea of a quintessence permeating all living things, and the neologistic title of this volume refers to this term, and to Bien-U's philosophy of landscape.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS

The New York Times

Dana Jennings

We can hear the wind, taste it, feel it. And as my golden retrievers, Moxie and Harry, remind me on any blowy day as they periscope their snouts into the air, we can also smell it. But here the South Korean photographer Bae, Bien-U lets us see the wind, using landscape to give gusts and breezes shape. This elemental book and its 500 shades of gray are all ocean and stone, fog and long grasses, revealing an unsettled weather of the soul. I almost expected Moxie and Harry to trot over and give the book a sniff.

Bae Bien-U: Windscape

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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