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Vitreous China - 2nd edition
978–9188113115
New
Publisher's presentation:
"Ron Jude’s Vitreous China is comprised of an archive of photographs he made while exploring areas of light industry in (primarily) Midwestern American cities. Rather than comment on the workings of industry itself, Jude depicts the ambient peripheral zones suffusing these environments: big rig parking lots, side exits, and other secondary spaces in which Jude imagines his grandfather might have daydreamed, or let his mind wander, during his many years as a kiln operator in vitreous china plants, first in the Midwest, and later in Southern California.
Supplanting the narrative inadequacies of photography with an alternate experience of atmospheric immersion, Jude exploits the seemingly factual, descriptive traits of the medium while also pursuing moments of subjective transcendence. Like the paradoxical relationship between the surface beauty of vitreous china (an enamel coating applied to porcelain) and its blunt, utilitarian function (strengthening toilets & sinks), the photographs, interwoven with a series of short texts by Mike Slack, attempt to tease out an experience that embraces both the physical crudeness of these spaces as well as the intangible complexes of memory and narrative encoded within them."
We are offering here the second revised edition of this book. The first edition was published by Libraryman in a thin carboard clamshell box in 2016.
54 pages - Hardcover
Libraryman, 2017
Format : 16 x 20 cm
New - Mint condition
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Jude, Ron
Ron Jude is an American photographer and teacher. His works is at the crossroads of rural and urban influences that permeates in his images. He has published many books including "Lick Creek Line" (Mack, 2012), "Lago" (Mack, 2015), "Vitreous China" (Libraryman, 2016), "Nausea" (Mack, 2017) and "12 Hz" (Mack, 2020). In 2019, he was the recipient of a "Guggenheim Fellowship". © Ron Jude.PLEASE NOTE: Currently out of stock, new SIGNED copies on the way - Shipment around May 3rd, 2021. Presentation by Mack: " 12 Hz—the lowest sound threshold of human hearing—suggests imperceptible forces, from plate tectonics to the ocean tides, from cycles of growth and decay in the forest, to the incomprehensibility of geological spans of time. The...
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