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Brian Sweeney: Paradise Road
Text by Stuart McKenzie.
New Zealand-born, New York-based photographer Brian Sweeney moves between long-distance reverie and the documentation of pattern and motif in landscape. Of this work, essayist Stuart McKenzie writes that “you can't look at Sweeney's photographs in Paradise Road and find paradise in and of itself. Instead, they carefully send you on your way, deflecting any pretense of essentiality.”
FROM THE BOOK
"The photographs in Sweeney's Paradise Road envision the world around us in its grandeur and banality as a sacred milieu to the very extent that it is not. Sweeney's photos reveal that the place apart is no distance from the way well traveled. Of course, the word 'paradise' tells us to look up. But then again the word 'road' advises that we keep our feet on the ground. If paradise is a place apart, road is a way in common."
Stuart Mackenzie, excerpted from his essay in Paradise Road.
FORMAT: Hbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 72 pgs / 47 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $50 ISBN: 9788881587612 PUBLISHER: Charta AVAILABLE: 3/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: No longer our product AVAILABILITY: Not available
New Zealand-born, New York-based photographer Brian Sweeney moves between long-distance reverie and the documentation of pattern and motif in landscape. Of this work, essayist Stuart McKenzie writes that “you can't look at Sweeney's photographs in Paradise Road and find paradise in and of itself. Instead, they carefully send you on your way, deflecting any pretense of essentiality.”
