A Distanced Land Photographs John Pfahl 1st Ed 1990 Art Photography

by John Pfahl

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A Distanced Land: The Photographs of John Pfahl is a landmark fine art photography monograph published in 1990 by the University of New Mexico Press in association with The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. This is a first edition hardcover (ISBN 0-8263-1214-4), published to accompany a prestigious traveling museum exhibition that appeared at three major American institutions: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (November 1990–January 1991), the Art Institute of Chicago (July–October 1991), and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (October 1992–January 1993). John Pfahl (born 1939) is one of America's most important and conceptually sophisticated photographers, celebrated for his ability to reveal the complex, often paradoxical beauty within industrial and man-made landscapes. This volume surveys his celebrated series including Power Places, Smoke, and Arcadia Revisited, which examine power plants, nuclear facilities, and industrial sites with a painterly eye that simultaneously critiques and aestheticizes environmental transformation. The cover image — a billowing plume of industrial smoke rendered in dramatic pinks and grays — perfectly encapsulates Pfahl's signature tension between beauty and ecological unease. The book includes an essay by noted photography scholar Estelle Jussim and introductory essays by curator Cheryl Brutvan, who organized the exhibition. Together these texts provide critical context for Pfahl's work within the Ame

• Year: 1990
• Condition: Good

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