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The Moon is Behind Us
Buch von Fazal Sheikh (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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This book is an intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of [...] the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by Covid-19, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born in 1965) and writer, educator and activist Terry Tempest Williams (born in 1955) found themselves 5,000 miles apart, Sheikh in Zurich, Switzerland, Tempest Williams in Castle Valley, Utah. Like so many others, they communicated across the days and nights by text and email, reflecting on the state of politics as the pandemic spread across the world.Looking bakc over his work, Sheikh decided to make a gift for Tempest Williams as a gesture of friendship and respect in troubled times. He selected 30 images, one for each year of his life as an artist, corresponding to one complete cycle of the moon. Some weeks later, a package arrived in Zurich. Inside were 30 letters from Tempest Williams, each responding to a single image, written across 30 days, another lunar cycleStudying the images had led her to wider, more philosophical considerations of the ways they connected to contemorary events: climate change, the rise of Black Lives Matter, the advances of woman and the focus of her work with Sheikh-their alliance with Native Nations in the American southwest supporting Bear Ears National Monument and the protection of these sacred [...] spontaneous nature of the correspondence in the middle of the pandemic made it all the more immediate, and when images and words were placed together, both artists where surprised by the intimacy of what they created in isolation. They felt it could be an offering to others who shared their concerns and might find comfort in the exchanges. This book ist the result of a friendship forged through art and their shared desire to collaborate on issues larger than themselves in a world broken and beautiful.
This book is an intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of [...] the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by Covid-19, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born in 1965) and writer, educator and activist Terry Tempest Williams (born in 1955) found themselves 5,000 miles apart, Sheikh in Zurich, Switzerland, Tempest Williams in Castle Valley, Utah. Like so many others, they communicated across the days and nights by text and email, reflecting on the state of politics as the pandemic spread across the world.Looking bakc over his work, Sheikh decided to make a gift for Tempest Williams as a gesture of friendship and respect in troubled times. He selected 30 images, one for each year of his life as an artist, corresponding to one complete cycle of the moon. Some weeks later, a package arrived in Zurich. Inside were 30 letters from Tempest Williams, each responding to a single image, written across 30 days, another lunar cycleStudying the images had led her to wider, more philosophical considerations of the ways they connected to contemorary events: climate change, the rise of Black Lives Matter, the advances of woman and the focus of her work with Sheikh-their alliance with Native Nations in the American southwest supporting Bear Ears National Monument and the protection of these sacred [...] spontaneous nature of the correspondence in the middle of the pandemic made it all the more immediate, and when images and words were placed together, both artists where surprised by the intimacy of what they created in isolation. They felt it could be an offering to others who shared their concerns and might find comfort in the exchanges. This book ist the result of a friendship forged through art and their shared desire to collaborate on issues larger than themselves in a world broken and beautiful.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 192 S.
ISBN-13: 9783958298804
ISBN-10: 395829880X
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Sheikh, Fazal
Williams, Terry Tempest
Hersteller: Steidl
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Steidl Verlag, Düstere Str. 4, D-37073 Göttingen, mwegener@steidl.de
Maße: 21 x 145 x 208 mm
Von/Mit: Fazal Sheikh (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
Artikel-ID: 119670595
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 192 S.
ISBN-13: 9783958298804
ISBN-10: 395829880X
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Sheikh, Fazal
Williams, Terry Tempest
Hersteller: Steidl
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Steidl Verlag, Düstere Str. 4, D-37073 Göttingen, mwegener@steidl.de
Maße: 21 x 145 x 208 mm
Von/Mit: Fazal Sheikh (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
Artikel-ID: 119670595
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