Research Catalog
Signs : photographs by Jim Dow
- Title
- Signs : photographs by Jim Dow / with essays by Jim Dow and April M. Watson.
- Author
- Dow, Jim, 1942-
- Publication
- Kansas City, Missouri : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [2022]
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
- ©2022
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- Description
- 119 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- The American photographer Jim Dow (b. 1942) is renowned for photographs that depict the built environment-he first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of baseball stadiums-and for his skill at conveying the "human ingenuity and spirit" that suffuse the spaces. This book is the first to focus on Dow's early black-and-white pictures, featuring more than 60 photographs made between 1967 and 1977, a majority of which have never before been published. Indebted to the work of Walker Evans, a key mentor of Dow's, these photographs depict time-worn signage taken from billboards, diners, gas stations, drive-ins, and other small businesses. While still recognizable as icons of commercial Americana, without their context Dow's signs impart ambiguous messages, often situated between documentation and abstraction. Including a new essay by Dow that reveals his own perspective on the development of the work, Signs suggests how these formative years honed the artist's sensibility and conceptual approach.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, May 7-October 9, 2022.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780300264012
- 0300264011
- LCCN
- 99990708708
- OCLC
- on1298549088
- 1298549088
- SCSB-14137138
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries