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| | MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS John Yang: Mount ZionHardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 88 color. | 3/2/2001 | Not available $35.00
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| | | Sepulchral PortraitsPublished by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.. Introduction by John Yang.Mount Zion refers to an Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Queens, New York, built in 1893, sandwiched between a New York City Sanitation plant and the Long Island Expressway. ''Sepulchral portraits'' refer to miniature photographs once placed on many of Mount Zion's tombstones, a custom brought over by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. These images--often heavily retouched--were burned onto porcelain or metal tablets, and then glazed. The process was, at the time, advertised as permanent; but the ravages of the elements, pollution, and vandals have transformed these portraits into something else altogether. What remains of them--and what has become of them--is what John Yang has set out to portray in his own series of photographs, taken between 1994 and 1998. The result is a fiercely moving document, a meditation on morality, memory, the urban landscape, and the photographic process. Much like his subject matter, Yang's photographs are themselves memorials--to Mount Zion, to its urban environment, to its occupants, to the gesture of its sepulchral portraits, and to photography itself.
PUBLISHER D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 88 color. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/2/2001 No longer our product DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2001 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781891024238 TRADE List Price: $35.00 CDN $40.00 AVAILABILITY Not available | |
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