Harry Gruyaert [Hardcover]

Born in Antwerp in 1941 and a member of Magnum Photos since 1982, Harry Gruyaert revolutionized creative and experimental uses of color in the 1970s and 1980s. Influenced by cinema and American photographers, his work defined new territory for color photography: an emotive, non-narrative, and boldly graphic way of perceiving the world.While the colors might pull you in, what is happening within the frame of Gruyaerts photographs stand alone primarily because his intent is to create a narrative within a single image.Graphic, charged, documentary-style color photographs. . . . Spans Mr. Gruyaerts evolution as an artist.Demonstrates that color can indeed be employed to compose exceptional photographs& Ideal for anyone curious about contemporary photography, photojournalism, and, of course, color photography.Seamless and transporting& Gruyaert is in many ways kin to Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, but he works in bold saturated color& In a world filled with street photographers, these days working mostly in color, Gruyaert's is a singular vision.The first retrospective of the pioneering work of Harry Gruyaert