Long life cool white
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Long life cool white
Harvard University Art Museums , Yale University Press [distributor], 2008
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Long life cool white : photographs & essays
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"Long life cool white: photographs & essays by Moyra Davey is published conjunction with the exhibition Long life cool white: photographs by Moyra Davey, on view at the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 28-June 30, 2008."--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 146-148
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Photographer Moyra Davey takes quiet but ravishing photographs of typically overlooked and banal objects. Newspapers, dust, books, money, empty bottles, and the things on top of refrigerators all figure in series of pictures that bring viewers into a state of increased sensitivity to their everyday lives. "Long Life Cool White" features forty-five of the artist's photographs from the past two decades.Davey's relationship to such traditions as street and conceptual photography and French surrealism can be seen throughout these pages. Noted scholar Helen Molesworth examines the domestic content of Davey's work as well as Davey's burgeoning career as a writer. The book also includes Davey's insightful essay 'Notes on Photography and Accident', in which she discusses the themes of chance, death, and the poetic that occur in the writings of three major theorists of photography: Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and Susan Sontag.
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