Author : Christopher Klatell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300222998
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Candy/A Good and Spacious Land by : Christopher Klatell
Download or read book Candy/A Good and Spacious Land written by Christopher Klatell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish photographer Wylie's A Good And Spacious Land -- the title taken from the biblical myth of the promised land -- is the smaller volume and the more conventional. While exploring the area initially, he became enamored with the reconstruction of the I-95 / I-91 interchange, a massive highway project then underway in New Haven. Shot from ground level, Wylie's photographs are dominated by sweeping forms of concrete and steel. The urban landscape appears stressed, fraught, and transitional, an uninviting backdrop for residents. When people appear in Wylie's New Haven they're an industrial afterthought, an impression Wylie enhances by shooting them often at a distance, with backs turned or bodies slouching. New Haven's residents take a back seat here to Wylie's primary concern, the highway interchange. This he has engaged with precision, carefully plotting its spatial layering and formal interplay. The reader's eye bounces here and there around the frames, always entertained and occasionally astonished.