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Windows
Hardback
Main Details
| Title |
Windows
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Xavier Guardans
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:70 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 280,Width 280 |
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| Category/Genre | Individual photographers
Photographs: collections |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9788862083232
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| Classifications | Dewey:779.092 |
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| Illustrations |
Illustrated in black and white throughout
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Damiani
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| Imprint |
Damiani
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| Publication Date |
1 February 2014 |
| Publication Country |
Italy
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Description
Windows is the breakthrough project of Xavier Guardans, produced in 2006 while exploring the Kenyan bush, and now seven years later, published for the first time. Windows includes a stunning selection of portraiture depicting various Turkana, Samburu, Masai, Rendille, Gabra, and Pokot individuals framed through the window of a Toyota Land Cruiser 4x4. This book is the first in a series of five to be published of Gurdans' long-term photographic projects.
Author Biography
Xavier Guardans (b. 1954, Barcelona) is a fine art photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Guardans is a unique photographer who explores his fascination with nature by shooting on location with only natural light. Through his widespread travels for estende periods of time to such far-flung places as Kenya, Japan, China, Patagonia, Joshua Tree, and Utah, to name a few, Guardans demonstrates an extraordinary ability to be comfortable in many different worlds.
ReviewsThe photographs of Spaniard Xavier Guardans are descendants of the Thesiger tradition of humane portraiture.--The Editors "The Wall Street Journal"
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