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Road Trip: Photographs 1980-1988

Road Trip: Photographs 1980-1988

Paperback (Square Quarto) paperback English 56 pages 24.1 x 24.8 x 0.6 cm 272g

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Road Trip: Photographs 1980-1988 (issued as Untitled 49) stands as an extraordinarily profound, compositionally brilliant fine-art milestone that captures the absolute “Late Style” and final decade-defining vision of American master Aaron Siskind. Closely bound to the mid-century Abstract Expressionist movement alongside his close companions Mark Rothko and Franz Kline, Siskind spent his career entirely dismantling the literal and narrative conventions of documentary realism. Rather than delivering passive landscapes or comforting travelogs, his camera treats the world as a flat, unyielding surface to generate independent graphic structures. Across 56 pages curated by David Featherstone, this historical portfolio tracks Siskind”s restless global wanderings between his 77th and 85th years. His quick, unmanipulated medium-format camera isolates micro-topographies from the asphalt roads of New England and highway line fractures to weather-worn rock formations and crumbling stucco walls in Peru and Morocco. Introduced by Charles Traub, each of the 41 high-contrast monochrome plates functions as a powerful visual workspace exploring geographical isolation, material impermanence, aging, and a lifelong search for order within the chaos of the road.

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