Name: Roy Arden: Fragments, Photographs 1981–1985
Author: Roy Arden
ISBN: 9780920293539

Photobook Library

Roy Arden: Fragments, Photographs 1981–1985

Photographer
Roy Arden
Publisher

Presentation House Gallery
ISBN

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Publication Year

2002
Edition

First edition exhibition monograph

Hardcover with dust jacket Hardcover English 48 pages 22.2 x 17.2 x 1.3 cm 0.26 kg

Description

Fragments, Photographs 1981–1985 captures a formative period in the career of Roy Arden, one of Canada’s most influential contemporary artists. In this series, Arden utilizes a 6×6 medium-format camera to document the “unremarkable” textures of Vancouver’s urban landscape. Moving away from the spontaneity of 35mm street photography, these color transparencies represent a search for a “lyrical but realist poetry” within the gutters, sidewalks, and weathered surfaces of the city. The book includes a profound essay by Peter Culley and detailed notes by Arden himself, offering insight into the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography.