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PUBLISHER
Fraenkel Gallery

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 50 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 66   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781881337331 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $72.50 GBP £50.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

San Francisco, CA
Fraenkel Gallery 01/13-03/13

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FRAENKEL GALLERY

The Unphotographable

Edited and with text by Jeffrey Fraenkel.

The UnphotographableSince the invention of photography almost 175 years ago, the medium has proven itself understandably adept at capturing what is there to be photographed: the solid, the concrete, that which can be seen. Another tradition exists, however; a parallel tradition in which photographers and artists have attempted to depict via photographic means that which is not so easily photographed: dreams, ghosts, god, thought, time. The Unphotographable explores this parallel tradition, and is published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, presenting photographs by anonymous amateurs alongside those of artists such as Diane Arbus, Bruce Conner, Liz Deschenes, Adam Fuss, Man Ray, Christian Marclay, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Alfred Stieglitz and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Jules-Bernard Luys and Émile David are represented by a photograph taken toward the end of the nineteenth century, of fluidic emission from the fingers of two hands; Richard Misrach captures a sandstorm in California in 1976; and Conner is represented by “Angel Light,” one of the Angels series of dramatic, life-sized photograms he created in 1973–75, and which explore the disjunction between vision and phenomenological experience. Since opening in 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented close to 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its interrelations with the other arts, and The Unphotographable is one of its most ambitious projects to date. The catalogue is edited with an essay by Jeffrey Fraenkel, and includes 50 images in color.

Featured image, Man Ray's "Primacy of Matter over Thought" (1929), is reproduced from The Unphotographable.

The Unphotographable

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/26/2013

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Join us through Sunday at the inaugural Paris Photo Los Angeles. On view at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood, Paris Photo draws collectors and exhibitors from around the world. Housed inside the Café storefront on Paramount's New York City backlot, our booth (C4) features hundreds of titles from the world's top photobook publishers—including Hatje Cantz, MoMA, Radius Books, Daylight, Editions Xavier Barral, RM, The Iceplant, Damiani, Yale University Press, Twin Palms, Morel, Patrick Frey, Nazraeli Press and Fraenkel Gallery, publisher of The Unphotographable, from which "Mental Picture #97" (2001), by Wolfgang Tillmans, is reproduced. Our booth features a large selection of limited editions, rare, signed, and out-of-print titles, and we are hosting book signings daily. For a complete list of signings, please see the ARTBOOK + Paris Photo page on our site. continue to blog


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