Robert Golden
Author
Language
English
Description
An impassioned, erudite set of essays by an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and rebelliously inveterate man of conscience.
The imperative of art in our lives now, as always, but as never before. As the current political, cultural word threatens to suffocate our consciousnesses, the author fearlessly throws down the gauntlet to his readers and fellow practitioners. Here is a list of ideas to incite artists to action through their work. A journey...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of David, an American photojournalist, targeted to become a martyr by revolutionary 'friends' in a dysfunctional, immediately pre-Arab Spring, tin pot dictatorship. David engages in a tense emotional and physical struggle to cope with the treachery, to accept that he must act and then to do so. The events take place across 17 hours; the clock is ticking; this is a thriller. The story is inter-cut with memories of his first 17 years...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book is composed of:
• 50 essays of about 350 words each laid out across from
• a full page photograph
• and note about the picture itself.
THE IDEA
The full-page images thoughtfully relate to the texts. They are not an attempt to illustrate the text but to ask questions about image-making.
There are portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and documentary images.
Its natural audience are students of the medium including amateurs;
*it is appropriate...