The Beauty of Lines: The Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Collection

by Celso Gonzalez-Falla

What makes us admire a sparsely populated photograph of two bicycles by Augusto Cantamessa? Or the striking visual effect displayed by a Depression-era Walker Evans picture of a man smoking and staring out past the lens? The beauty of a great photograph lies in its lines and their power to confront the viewer visually. Throughout history, photographers have made use of photographic line in a vast variety of ways, from the "instantaneous lines" of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3858818003
• ISBN13: 9783858818003
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"