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Erik Madigan Heck: The Garden
Erik Madigan Heck: The Garden
DAMIANI

A sumptuous clothbound portrayal of a family in Edenic reverie

Clth, 10.5 x 12.75 in. / 184 pgs / 73 color. | 2/16/2021 | Not available
$90.00



Erik Madigan Heck: The GardenErik Madigan Heck: The Garden

Published by Damiani.
Text by Leanne Shapton.

In The Garden, American photographer Erik Madigan Heck (born 1983) portrays his wife and two young sons in a variety of richly colorful surrounds. The photographs draw upon Catholic iconography and other mythic pictorial traditions to develop a color-based narrative evocative of spiritual archetypes and the processes of dissolution and rebirth.

The series moves through a singular world—a fairy tale in which figures and settings become tableaux for hyper-concentrated tonal arrangements. Images are composited and oversaturated to create painterly and surreal compositions in which the familiar and fantastic are merged. Completing its aesthetic fantasy through lavish clothes, gestures of dreamlike poignancy and an Edenic environment, The Garden expresses the supramundane innocence and spontaneity that art makes possible—a life lived in the direct, immediate experience of beauty. Shot predominantly at the family’s home in New England, the series initially elicits comparisons with other contemporary photography confronting family life, such as Sally Mann’s Immediate Family or the work of Elinor Carucci. But although the subjects of Heck’s photographs are ostensibly his family, The Garden's real subject matter is color and the aesthetic possibilities of photography to create what it captures.



PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10.5 x 12.75 in. / 184 pgs / 73 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 47   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862087254 TRADE
List Price: $90.00 CAD $126.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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