Karin Rosenthal-Twenty Years Of Photographs [Paperback]

Karen Rosenthal (Author), Karin Rosenthal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2000

This book create elegrant abstracts, that are senual but not erotic.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...Rosenthal creates elegant abstractions ... [which are] sensual without being erotic." -- Kelly Wise, The Boston Globe

"Many of her nudes have ... sculptural qualities, with an emphasis on the strong forms of the human body." -- Davis Pratt, Curator of Photographs, Fogg Art Museum

From the Publisher

We are proud to bring this collection of photographs to the public. Rosenthal is a unique and visionary artist, whose sensual nudes awaken the flesh to the realm of the spirit.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Dec 2000-Jan 2001
Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Oct-Nov 2000
New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, May-June 2000
Panopticon, Boston, MA, 1997
The Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, 1995
Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, Winchester, MA, 1993
Adesso, Boston, MA, 1992

Public Collections:
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
International Polaroid Collection/Musee de lElysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Polaroid Collections, National and International, Cambridge, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

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Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Hard Press Editions (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889097411
• ISBN-13: 978-1889097411
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,778,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant, sensual and moistly erotic, December 21, 2000

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Fraser Gallery (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Karin Rosenthal-Twenty Years Of Photographs (Paperback)

There is a subtle quality to Karin Rosenthal's photographs that is very hard to describe in words, which will fall short in adverbs to describe her beautifully elegant images.

She focuses her work on the human body without allowing the body itself to dominate the work. It is where she composes moist landscapes, where human flesh is the lands and dark, black water the erotic mirror for this living island of flesh, that her work strikes a primeval chord. This is high quality, rarified fine art photography at its best. Don't expect to find fuzzy, oily lenses with soft-focus images here. What you will find is very good photography with well-honed dark room and compositional skills. She truly flexes her artistic muscles in this book!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Subtle excellence, November 6, 2001

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Keith L. Williams (Loma Linda, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Karin Rosenthal-Twenty Years Of Photographs (Paperback)

Karin Rosenthal manages to bring a given mood to each of her photographs, in addition to the excellent images she portrays. The majority of the photographs in this book bring the viewer into an almost physical contact with the subtle portrails of the human form. This is not a book of abject erotica, but more a celebration of the different parts of the human form.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegant eroticism at its best, February 12, 2001

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F. Lennox Campello "f. lennox campello" (Potomac, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Karin Rosenthal-Twenty Years Of Photographs (Paperback)

The human body continues to amaze with its ability to excite our senses, and yet artists continue to find new ways to present it to us. This is what makes this such a special book, is that Karin Rosenthal delivers a brilliant tour of what can be accomplished with something as beautiful as the body and Earth elements, most notably water. This is a skilled, creative photographer with ample darkroom skills to boot!