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| Etruscan Tomb, Tarquinia, Italy, 1992 |
This book is a beautiful meditation on the essence of
photography, which is quite literally the gathering of light. From a fluorescent lit
warehouse to an ancient Asian temple to Las Vegas, light is the subject
matter of these images. In the book’s introduction, David Hickey states, “By taking
light itself as the subject of his new photographs, Ross addresses the central
irony of photography: the fact that photography, which lives in and by light,
can no more look directly at it than ancient believers could look upon the face
of God.”
Gathering Light
Richard Ross
TR654 .R665 2000
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