Sequences of Light: Selected Photographs 1980-2000 - Softcover

Eisenhauer, Robert

9781571974815: Sequences of Light: Selected Photographs 1980-2000

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571974814 ISBN 13: 9781571974815

Publisher: Ivy House Pub Group, 2008

Robert Eisenhauer's Sequences of Light: Selected Photographs 1980-2000 offers a sampling of images documenting the author's travels by car and motorcycle in Europe, Asia Minor, and North America. Included in the volume are photographs of the Yucatan peninsula, California, Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, New York City, Venice, Rome, the Greek Islands, Turkey, and southern Pennsylvania. In what is described as a book about learning through experience and memory, Eisenhauer's judicious selection discloses itself as a prismatic series of ravishings by light and shadow, the architectural past and the natural present. Some aspects of his work with the camera will suggest Vija Celmins or Elior Porter, while other reveal an interest in continuities of shape and abstract form. Since Eisenhauer is a poet as well as an amateur photographer, Sequences of Light is enlivened by original verse and pertinent texts from Goethe, Vergil, and Ovid. As in any book of its kind, Sequences of Light, which at one point bore the title Water, Buildings, Trees, turns out to be as much about the author/photographer, self-described as an auto- and moto-didact, as about the image. Sequences is both a road-trip one resensed each time the itinerant reader explores its pages and something poetically more than the sum of its visual parts.

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About the Author:

Poet, teacher, coach, and critic, Robert Eisenhauer previously published Winterrules with Ivy House Publishing Group (2005). He is also the author of The Maya Railroad (1995) and Fugues/Cartouches (2006). He continues to ride either a vintage or a modern-era motorcycle through the orchards of southern Pennsylvania. His last trip to Europe was in 1999.

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