Signs : photographs by Jim Dow / with essays by Jim Dow and April M. Watson.

Main entry:

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, author, host institution, issuing body.

Title & Author:

Signs : photographs by Jim Dow / with essays by Jim Dow and April M. Watson.

Publication:

Kansas City, Missouri : The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [2022]
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
©2022

Description:

119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, May 7-October 9, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-117).
A sense of things in time / April M. Watson -- Plates -- When the present becomes a past / Jim Dow -- A personal bibliography / Jim Dow.

Summary:

The American photographer Jim Dow (b. 1942) is renowned for photographs that depict the built environment--he first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of baseball stadiums--and for his skill at conveying the "human ingenuity and spirit" that suffuse the spaces. This book is the first to focus on Dow's early black-and-white pictures, featuring more than 60 photographs made between 1967 and 1977, a majority of which have never before been published. Indebted to the work of Walker Evans, a key mentor of Dow's, these photographs depict time-worn signage taken from billboards, diners, gas stations, drive-ins, and other small businesses. While still recognizable as icons of commercial Americana, without their context Dow's signs impart ambiguous messages, often situated between documentation and abstraction. Including a new essay by Dow that reveals his own perspective on the development of the work, Signs suggests how these formative years honed the artist's sensibility and conceptual approach.

ISBN:

9780300264012 (hardcover)
0300264011 (hardcover)

Subject:

Dow, Jim, 1942- Exhibitions.
Dow, Jim, 1942-
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Photograph collections Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Signs and signboards Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Symbolism in art Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Symbolisme dans l'art Expositions.
PHOTOGRAPHY / General.
Photography, Artistic
Signs and signboards
Symbolism in art

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dow, Jim, 1942- photographer, writer of added text.
Watson, April M., writer of added text.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315443
Call No.: 315443
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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