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Devil\u0027s Pool

Title: Devil\u0027s Pool / Sarah Kaufman.
Author: Kaufman, Sarah
Publication: [United States?] : Daylight Books, [2021]

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1 volume : illustrations (colour); 27 x 27 cm

Summary

The Devil\u0027s Pool photographs explore a swimming hole in Philadelphia\u0027s Wissahickon Park and emphasize the value of access to green spaces within an urban setting. The project investigates how people relate to their environment and affirms a human need or impulse to commune with the natural world. The work pictures diversity, celebrating the human body interacting with nature, and looks at relationships among people, their bodies, and the environments that they inhabit. It recognizes a long tradition of bathing throughout art history (both indoors and out in nature) and the potential for a pictorial space where the body can be openly represented and honored. This work considers the reflexivity in viewing imagery of people fully taken by their physical and psychological surroundings. Devil\u0027s Pool stems from my love for the Wissahickon and the respite that it provides. People from all over are drawn to this urban swimming hole as a place to play and revel in physicality and nature. The images depict moments of coherence among our bodies and the world around us. At Devil\u0027s Pool, I am able to expand my admiring picture of everyday bodies, their owners absorbed in unselfconscious presence.

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Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

ISBN

1954119003
9781954119000

LCCN

99990317330

OCLC

on1243966452
1243966452

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Columbia University Libraries