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Landscapes

Landscapes

Paperback English 95 pages

Description

Published in 1973 by Magnum Photos, Landscapes presents the work of Burk Uzzle in a concise 95-page volume devoted to artistic photography. Its title is deliberately spare: rather than naming a region, travel itinerary, or documentary event, it places the idea of landscape at the centre and leaves the photographs to establish what that category can contain.

Uzzle’s authorship is the book’s defining point of attention. The volume is catalogued simply as a book by the photographer, with no supplementary narrative or thematic subtitle recorded. That restraint matters. It suggests an encounter organized first through images and their relation across the sequence, rather than through an explanatory account imposed from outside. For readers interested in the history of photographic publishing, the book offers a focused example of how a landscape subject could be framed as an artistic problem in its own right.

The 1973 publication date also places Landscapes/photographs within an important period for the photobook as a form: a moment when photographic series were increasingly understood not merely as collections of individual pictures but as edited bodies of work. The available cataloguing identifies the subject as artistic photography and the publisher as Magnum Photos, giving the book a clear position between photographic authorship and institutional publishing.

For a serious collector, its interest lies in that compact alignment of photographer, subject, period, and form. This is a paperback English-language publication of 95 pages, issued by Magnum Photos and associated with the ISBN 9780914122012. Its modest bibliographic profile should not obscure the sharper reason to look closely: Landscapes/photographs records Uzzle’s sustained engagement with landscape while preserving the concentrated scale and image-led logic that make photobooks rewarding objects of study.

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