This exquistly printed monograph of renowned photographer Connie Imboden is a collection of images from the past fifteen years of her career. Both ethereal and strong, Connie Imboden's photographs are a study in transformation and mutation of the human form. Imboden's nudes floating in water are an unprecedented exploration of the human body.
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Connie Imboden has shown her photographs in an extensive range of group and solo shows at galleries and museums in Costa Rica, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, The National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France, and many other public and private collections in Europe and the Americas.
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The Face of the Deep
Forward by Arthur Ollman
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was void and unformed, and darkness was on the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the water.
Water. Darkness. The creation. The earth and the water. Water is the primal substance. It is the one basic thing that this stone of a planet has upon it. It is the source of animation on the stillness of stone. It creates the atmosphere and then churns it around the planet. It creates life and then makes all life grow. It distinguishes our planet from the dead ones. Its currents create the weather; its abundance provides our diversity. It has formed animal cultures, provided both isolation and access for human societies. Where there is water we gather. Where there is none we go only to hide. We die quickly for lack of it. We, and all other mammals are made of it, for the most part. Yet a few grams of it in the wrong place can kill us. We are easily destroyed by it. It floods, it freezes, it evaporates bringing devastation. Its wrath on the seas is beyond human comprehension. It forms moving mountains 100 feet high, that can level coastal cities and deposit whales into treetops ten miles inland. Its waves may reach nearly supersonic speeds as they cross the oceans, daring anything to try to stop it. It may pool, warmly in an abdomen to harbor the form of a new being. Or it may inch, sadly down a cheek.
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One of the great artists of our time.,
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This review is from: Beauty of Darkness (Hardcover)
I don't own a copy of this book, but stumbled upon Connie Imboden's photographs while researching artists to compare and contrast with artists of the past. I fell in love with Connie's vision of the human body. It is like there is a story line to each picture and a mystery.
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Wonderful and gorgeous photographs,
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This review is from: Beauty of Darkness (Hardcover)
beautiful, haunting, eerie images. connie imboden sees the body in a new way.
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Unique vision,
By John in DC "John" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beauty of Darkness (Hardcover)
There have been many image makers throughout photographic history that have worked with the nude but Imboden pushes forward. No one else today has the unique vision that this book represents. It is beautifully printed and a "must buy" for every collector.
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