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Photographs and Text by Jeffrey Becom Foreword by Paul Goldberger
"Jeffrey Becom's photographs are more brilliantly poised between abstraction and realism than any others I have ever seen. . . . His work—this book—has two missions: the documentation of a disappearing architectural culture and the creation of beautiful works of art."—from the Foreword
Millions of feet have trod—and eyes have seen— the sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean. Jeffrey Becom shows them to us as we have never looked at them before; not the hackneyed tourist attractions on perpetual display, not the well-worn monuments, not even the sweeping sea vistas of the postcards, but the houses of farmers and fishermen, the walls of back streets, the poignant, gentle, startling details of a dazzlingly varied vernacular architectiure. Mediterranean Color is a very different kind of travel book, a guide not to the sites of great battles or great restaurants, but a... Tovább

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COLOR
Photographs and Text by Jeffrey Becom Foreword by Paul Goldberger
"Jeffrey Becom's photographs are more brilliantly poised between abstraction and realism than any others I have ever seen. . . . His work—this book—has two missions: the documentation of a disappearing architectural culture and the creation of beautiful works of art."—from the Foreword
Millions of feet have trod—and eyes have seen— the sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean. Jeffrey Becom shows them to us as we have never looked at them before; not the hackneyed tourist attractions on perpetual display, not the well-worn monuments, not even the sweeping sea vistas of the postcards, but the houses of farmers and fishermen, the walls of back streets, the poignant, gentle, startling details of a dazzlingly varied vernacular architectiure. Mediterranean Color is a very different kind of travel book, a guide not to the sites of great battles or great restaurants, but a guide to seeing what everyone else misses. Jeffrey Becom is a traveler in search of color, and he has found a bounty of it in the intimate comers of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and Greece.
Mediterranean Color is at once abstract and specific: the royal-blue, maroon, lobster-red, and yolk-yellow wall and doorway in a Becom photograph have all the persuasive coherence of a great color-field painting, but they are aspects of a real house belonging to a certain fisherman in a particular place.
The photographs are set in context by Becom's brilliant writing, a personal memoir of his search for Mediterranean color and also the product of wide-ranging research on the history of the region and its marvelously varied traditions of vernacular building.
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Mediterranean Color is about seeing abstractly, but also concretely, intensely, and sensually, about seeing the life embodied in paint and stone and plaster. It is about how people in six nations on or near the Mediterranean Sea celebrate living in the exquisite details of the buildings they have created.
"Becom's photographs are startling, powerful and often piercingly beautihil [a] marvelous book of quiet discoveries."—Publishers WeeMy
"Becom's graceful text is as satisfying to the mind as his photographs are to the eye."—Library Journal
About the Photographer
Jeffrey Becom is a contemporary renaissance man—painter, photographer, and writer—whose work is exhibited widely. He is the focus of a pbs film titled For the Colors, on the traditional architecture and decoration of Italy. His most recent book is Maya Color.
Also available fi-om Abbeville Press Maya Color:
The Painted Villages of Mesoamerica Photographs by Jeffrey Becom Text by Jeffrey Becom and Sally Jean Aberg ISBN 0-7892-0215-8
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