The Westerns
Fraenkel Gallery / Greenberg Van Doren Gallery / Salon 94 Freemans, 2007. Large folio (15 x 12 inches). [50] pages. 23 large-format color plates. Printed wrappers. A fine copy with a few small marks on rear wrapper. Item #407090
ISBN: 9781881337249
"Grannan’s large format color portraits depict subjects the artist describes as “new pioneers,” northern Californians who struggle to define themselves under the scrutiny of relentless sunlight. California serves as both a literal and metaphorical backdrop for Grannan’s new photographs. It is a mythical destination and a real end-point where sunshine illuminates both the abject and the joyful. In The Westerns, Grannan explores the uneasy relationship between fixed photographic portraiture and her subjects’ mercurial identities. The photographs are replete with ambiguity and contradiction: they are evidence of an invented" (Fraenkel Gallery).
Price: $50.00