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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- ISBN 9781032304670
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages188 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 43 Illustrations, black & white; 43 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century. With detailed analyses of individual photographs, it unpacks how the artist generates ‘other ways of seeing’ while facilitating an examination of photography’s modernity and modernism.
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This pioneering book offers fresh insights into the photographic work of the American artist Frederick Sommer, whose long career spanned the 20th century. With detailed analyses of individual photographs, Frederick Sommer: A World of Bonds unpacks the ways in which the artist generates ‘other ways of seeing’ while simultaneously facilitating an examination of photography’s modernity and modernism.
The authors show how Sommer’s work allows for a deeper exploration of the potential of photography as a medium and, at the same time, demonstrate that it cannot be understood solely in the photographic terms established by his contemporaries. The chapters explore a wide range of themes including violence and death, metamorphosis, landscape, the relationship between alchemy and the creative process, the materiality of photographs, and embodied vision. Though usually discussed in relation to surrealism, Sommer took inspiration from a multitude of sources in art history as well as philosophy, literature, and science among others. Thinking about Sommer’s photographs within a broader framework in this way therefore offers a new understanding of his work as a dialogue with aesthetic ideas that aim to make sense of the world.
Engaging with themes of cosmopolitanism, assemblage and visuality, the book will be of interest to scholars of art history, photography, and visual studies with interests in post-war art and modernism.
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1. The life and work of Frederick Sommer 2. Untitled (Amputated Foot) (1939) 3. Jack Rabbit (1939) 4. Arizona Landscape (1943) 5. Found Painting (1949) 6. All Children Are Ambassadors (1950) 7. Paracelsus (1959) 8. Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John (1966) 9. Constellations
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