Anonymous (Paperback)

Author: Robert Flynn/ Boyd JohnsonForeword By: William Boyd
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780500285763
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publish Date: 11/28/2005
Buy.com Sku: 31252547
Item#: R4DS42
Dimensions (in Inches) 9.75H x 10L x 0.5T
Pages: 208
 
The wonderfully diverse images reproduced here include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from speculating on the circumstances in which they were taken. Novelist William Boyd, whose introduction identifies thirteen ways in which to look at photographs, explains: "The anonymous photograph... makes us ask, with new concentration, what it is about a photograph that elevates it above the causal and the banal ... why some images move and enthrall and remain in our memories." The number of collectors of anonymous photographs is growing exponentially. Robert Flynn Johnson has spent more than a decade on a personal journey of discovery through what were previously uncharted waters to find the works reproduced here. Reflecting themes that govern our lives--birth, death, love, war, travel, celebrity--these photographs are pleasurable and poignant, giving insight into the human secrets with which we can all identify. Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
 
 
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Bloomsbury Review
"[A] subliminal intention hovers beneath the surface, and we connect with the drama, pathos, daring, banality, and affection that informs each image, whether it is a snapshot on TV, an awkward yet elegant portrait, a Halloween memento, or a home-style tableau vivant." 08/31/2005


 
Author Bio
William Boyd
Boyd spent much of his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, where his father, an expert on tropical diseases, was on the staff of various universities. He was educated in Scotland and at Oxford, where he taught English until 1982. Many of his books are set in Africa, including A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA, perhaps his most well-known novel. He has also written short stories and screenplays, as well as many book reviews for English and American newspapers.

  
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