

This spectacular account of the Great War includes sketches and drawings made on the battle fields and photographs by the official photographers accompanying each army. Large, coffee-table format (16' x 12') containing 144 pages.

For all her use of herself in her work, her practice is not egocentric. 1916 Collier's Photographic History of the European War, by P.F. It feels cooked and raw, forged and authentic, sad and droll. Born Irene Marjorie Ritscher in Bayswater, into a Central European Jewish family, she was known in her youth as Rene Ritcher, but renamed herself Patience.

Seller Rating: Contact seller Used - Hardcover Condition: Good US 22. Collier & Son, 1918 Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, U.S.A.
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Indeed, Collier's photography is full of compelling contradictions. Colliers New Photographic History of the Worlds War: Including Sketches, Drawings and Paintings Made By Artists at the Front 1918 REYNOLDS (Francis J.) and C.W. Our Vitamin PH book focuses on her photographic work, examining how "her practice reconsiders the messy world of affective expression, paying particular attention to the way photographs act as transitional objects and repostitries of displaced feeling." By appropriating images from the mass media - including iconic film posters, album covers, magazine pages, photographic test plates, and simple notebooks - and re-photographing them, Collier creates her own personal lexicon of popular culture. Her Double Exposure photograph steers clear of narcissism but is full of compelling contradictionsĪnne Collier's deadpan photographs draw on the traditions of West Coast conceptual and minimal art.
