Stephen Shore: The Gardens At Giverny: A View of Monet's World [Hardcover]

Gerald Van der Kemp (Author), Daniel Wildenstein (Author), John Rewald (Editor), Stephen Shore (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2005

Claude Monet found inspiration in the rose-covered trellises, wild rambles of nasturtiums, and idle drift of water lilies in the gardens of Giverny outside Paris. So too did Stephen Shore, who photographed the gardens one hundred years later after their painstaking restoration. Commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to photograph the renascence of the gardens, Shore visited Giverny over six years beginning in 1977. Going to the gardens before dawn and leaving after dusk, in different seasons, he came to know them in all the moods and textures that inspired Monet. Shore's fidelity to the gardens' plenitude and his desire to present the abstract beauty of nature result in exquisitely serene photographs that express the essence of Giverny.

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About the Author

Stephen Shore is currently the Chair of the Division of the Arts and the Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: Aperture; 1St Edition edition (June 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893811130
• ISBN-13: 978-0893811136
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #619,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A breathtakingly beautiful compendium, March 15, 2001

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This review is from: The Gardens at Giverny: A View of Monet's World (Paperback)

Stephen Shore's The Gardens At Giverny: A View Of Monet's World is a breathtakingly beautiful compendium of forty four-color photographs inspired by the paintings and subject matter of Claude Monet and a celebration of the restoration of the gardens at Giverny, Paris. Here are sumptuous images reflecting the many moods and textures of an inspired and inspiring landscape. A superbly presented work of landscape photography as art, The Gardens At Giverny is also available in hardcover (0-893781-113-0, $40.00) which would be the preferred recommendation for academic and community library photography book collections.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Garden-Beautiful Photographs, March 16, 2003

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This review is from: Stephen Shore: The Gardens At Giverny: A View of Monet's World (Hardcover)

This is a great artist's amazingly beautiful garden. And the photographs are not just pretty pictures of flowers, but are full of emotion.