One Sunday in Beijing is the first publication by Michael Kenna to include color work. The colored pages in One Sunday in Beijing have rectangular cut-out windows that reveal the image printed on the following page.
”When he photographs Beijing, Briton Michael Kenna is far less interested in the pollution or the ravages of market communism, than in the perfection of the forms he observes at length until they take on a profoundly spiritual dimension. Far from seeking to depict the reign of need and the many constraints in the era of market totalitarianism, the artist takes the scenic route of the sublime, to re-establish the lost unity between man and his environment. His sensitivity, at times close to the melancholic eye of an Atget, tends to elicit a brutal, impossible reality, the archetypal lines of a first world where the structuring forces of an impeccable geometry create scenes of utmost tranquillity (…). The diptychs of One Sunday in Beijing are arches of welcome for the lost.” Excerpt from “Michael Kenna, photography as a hymn” by Fabien Ribery
SPECIFICATIONS
Publisher: Editions Bessard
Publication date: 2018
Limited edition of 700 (350 with a yellow cover, 350 with a red cover)
Photographs: Michael Kenna
Hardcover
74 pages 290mm x 310 mmIncludes a 18cm x 19cm colour C-print (not signed)
ISBN-13: 979-1091406611
＊Please specify choice of red or yellow cover, note that each colour will come with a different print.
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