Putting Back The Wall
John Gossage
Loosestrife Books
English and German
Hardcover
132 Pages
260 x 340 mm
2007
ISBN 0975312030
This companion volume to the 2005 “Berlin in the Time of the Wall” presents Gossage’s Berlin photographs from 1982-1989 revisited as memory. There are documentary photographs, which might promise clarity – yet deliver only mystery. And then there are the poetic photographs of John Gossage, which might promise invention and fiction – yet actually deliver truth. With every Gossage book there is an inevitable nod to the artistry of the Photobook. An exquisite cover fashioned from the remains of a deteriorating album sets the tone of the publication. Essays by Gerry Badger, Thomas Weski and John Gossage presented in the unconventional, yet masterful manner we have come to expect in a Gossage production. The 2007 volume will also be sold in a slip case with the 2005 “Berlin” edition. The Pond (Aperture, 1985) and Stadt de Schwarz (Loosestrife, 1987) two previous titles by Gossage are highlighted in the recently published History of the Photobook Vol. 2. (Phaidon).
About the Artist
John Gossage (1946- ) born in Staten Island, New York is an artist who has, more than most contemporary photographers, become noted for his intellectually engaging, subversive and well-crafted artist books and other publications. In them the artist utilizes under-recognized elements of the urban environment: unused and abandoned patches of land; refuse and detritus; barbed wire; graffiti and the like, to explore themes as disparate as surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power.
(source: https://stephendaitergallery.com/artists/john-gossage/)
About the Publisher
Loosestrife Books is a specialist photobook publisher based in Rockville, Maryland, America. They have released books by Anthony Hernandez, John Gossage and Michael Abrams.
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