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Title:
Dreaming in reverse =: Soñando hacia atrásSoñando hacia atrás
Creator/Contributor:
Chambers, Tom, (Photographer), creator, photographer.Date:
2011 (issued)Contents:
Tethered aviator = Aviador atado -- Transfiguration = Transfiguración -- Afternoon with Octavio = Una tarde con Octavio --
Stuck in the key of C = Atrapado en la tecla de C -- Two chairs = Dos sillas -- Presumptuous guests = Invitados presuntuosos
-- Ring of fire = Aro de fuego -- Glass flower = Flor de vidrio -- Visions of Clemencia = Visiones de Clemencia -- Unfamiliar
melody = Melodía desconocida -- Caging the songbird = Enjaulando al pájaro cantor -- Seabird mimicry = Mímica de aves marinas.
Subject:
n-mx---Magic realism (Art) -- Mexico -- Specimens
Photography, Artistic -- Specimens
Réalisme magique (Art) -- Mexique -- Spécimens
Photographie artistique -- Spécimens
Magic realism (Art)
Photography, Artistic
Mexico -- Photographs
Mexico
Note:
Tom Chambers.
Identical title printed on cover of box, internal wrapper and first sheet of text.
Also includes 7 sheets of printed text: title, quote by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, list of plates, artist's statement, introduction
by Dennis Kiel (2 sheets), and colophon.
"Published August, 2011, Photo-Eye Editions, 370 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501" -- colophon.
"This portfolio of twelve pigment ink prints housed in an archival anodized aluminum box is published in a limited edition
of thirty with two artist's and two printer's proofs" -- colophon.
"I have created the series "Dreaming in reverse" to express both my concern for cultural loss, as well as my appreciation
for the inherent loveliness of Mexican life. Employing magic realism, an art genre used in the early twentieth century in
Mexico, I have attempted to create images of Mexico which seem true and believable, but also perhaps improbable" -- artist's
statement.
Printed captions on backs of prints include image title, portfolio title, 2010 copyright statement and publisher's name.
Portfolio title, image titles and artist's statement in English and Spanish; remainder of text in English only.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Specimens.
Physical Description:
photoprint
12 photographs in 1 box : pigment ink prints ; sheets 36 x 29 cm, box 38 x 30 cm
Language:
mul