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Title: |
SOUVENIRS DU SPHINX |
| Sub-title: |
Collection Wouter Deruytter |
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| By (author): |
Wouter Deruytter |
| ISBN10-13: |
2918960853 : 9782918960850 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Weight: |
.300 Kg. |
| Published: |
Poursuite - October 2015 |
| List Price: |
20.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
No Longer Distributing
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| The pyramids overshadowed the Sphinx for millennia until drawings, prints and, especially, photographs made it an icon. Wouters Deruytterâ s collection is a history of the photography of this solitary, monumental sculpture. The Sphinx sits beneath albumin, collodion or gelatine skies in monochrome hues ranging from brown to pale pink in nineteenth-century photographs to black and white in the twentieth. The Sphinx, a witness to the birth of archaeology and the growth of tourism, has placidly watched a parade of travellers go by. Woutersâ monumental photographs offer an unprecedented vision of the Sphinx. Exploring the giant with a lionâ s body inside and out, the photographer invites us to the heart of the worldâ s most enigmatic sculpture. This work and this collection tells us how much heritage awareness shifts from one object to another. After accompanying and documenting admiration for the Sphinx, it is the photographsâ turn to be preserved and offered for contemplation. Luce Lebart. |
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