"This is the first museum exhibition catalogue dedicated to the lesser-known photographs of renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), one of the major abstract artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Kelly started taking photographs in 1950, using a borrowed Leica camera. For Kelly, his photographs were a record of his vision. This book captures the way in which Kelly saw the world as a source for his art, with his photographs capturing instances of his unique vision rather than as source material for his work ...
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"This is the first museum exhibition catalogue dedicated to the lesser-known photographs of renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), one of the major abstract artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Kelly started taking photographs in 1950, using a borrowed Leica camera. For Kelly, his photographs were a record of his vision. This book captures the way in which Kelly saw the world as a source for his art, with his photographs capturing instances of his unique vision rather than as source material for his work in other media, such as his paintings and sculptures. This stunning book features more than sixty photographs by Kelly, who perceptively created a commanding body of abstract art drawn from forms he found in the everyday world. Extraordinary works of art in their own right, Kelly's photographs allow viewers to precisely see how the artist registered the shapes, shadows, and other visual phenomena that resonated within his work in other media over seven decades. Here readers can experience the clarity and beauty of his exacting vision using the camera and his enthusiasm for the world around him, from leaves and a tree branch to the side of a building or a barn in the snow. This volume includes an essay that explores Kelly's photographic practice and a 1991 interview with Ellsworth Kelly by Charles Hagen as well as selected quotes by the artist"--
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