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Cancellations

Title
Cancellations / photographs by Thomas Barrow ; essay by Geoffrey Batchen.
Publication
Brooklyn, NY : PowerHouse Books, 2012.
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  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Additional Authors
  • Barrow, Thomas F.
  • Batchen, Geoffrey.
Description
112 pages : chiefly illustrations; 27 x 35 cm
Summary
Thomas Barrow's Cancellations is a series of photographic prints of desolate spaces--empty lots, construction sites, deserted industrial areas--that all show the presence of mankind without showing a single living human. Compiled in the 70s and 80s, Barrow's beautiful sepia-toned images show their age in their sheer physicality. These are clearly prints, not digital files, evidence of which can be seen in their specked and aged surfaces. And they call further attention to the hands-on process of silver gelatin photography through marks, often an X across the image, carved by Barrow directly onto the negative. Widely exhibited since its compilation, Cancellations will see print for the first time in the form of a beautifully produced artist's book. At once both a mordant social commentary on the built environment of the American west, and linked to the Process Art movement because of the distressed and defaced nature of the prints, this work calls attention to the photographic negative and the photo print as object--an important subversion in a medium often utilized for its subtle ability to clinically remove any evidence of process from its product, and in the digital age rapidly losing its ties to the physical world.
Subject
  • Barrow, Thomas F
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Southwestern States > Pictorial works
  • United States > Southwestern States
Genre/Form
Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 105).
Call Number
JQG 20-170
ISBN
  • 9781576876107
  • 1576876101
LCCN
2012944536
OCLC
775415655
Title
Cancellations / photographs by Thomas Barrow ; essay by Geoffrey Batchen.
Imprint
Brooklyn, NY : PowerHouse Books, 2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 105).
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Added Author
Barrow, Thomas F.
Batchen, Geoffrey.
Research Call Number
JQG 20-170
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