Philip Brookman Knihy

Monografie známého newyorského kurátora. Kniha obsahuje asi 300 fotografií, mj. Marca Chagalla, Hanse Arpa, Eugena O'Neilla, Arthura Millera, Haile Sellasieho, Picassa, Stravinského, Adenauera, Eisenhowera, Jeana Cocteaua, Marilyn Monroe, Leonarda Bernsteina, George Harrisona, Nabokova, Joana Miró, Henry Moorea, Warhola, Capoteho, Wiesela, Asimova, Paula Austera, Arafata, Woodyho Allena....tedy výrazných osobností světového umění a politiky v letech 1938 až 1999. Úvodní asi 30stránkový text Philipa Brookmana je psán v angličtině, němčině a francouzštině. Závěr publikace tvoří fotografova biografie, bibliografie,seznam hlavních výstav a index fotografií, obsažených v knize.

Redlands weaves together an intimate sequence of photographs and a short story by Philip Brookman, set in California, Mexico, and New York City during the unsettled decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Brookman uses fiction and images from his own photographic diaries to create a first-person account of Kip, an artist who wanders back and forth between farmworkers and poets – between California and New York – seeking to question the meaning of his mother’s death. When Kip learns that he can’t trust the eyewitness accounts of his sister, he picks up a camera to find meaning in his own experience. By juxtaposing the oppositional strategies of fiction and documentary practice to find an invented narrative, Redlands questions the veracity of logical observation and embraces the poetry of the real world.