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Park Fugue – Photographs from Golden Gate Park

Title: Park Fugue – Photographs from Golden Gate Park

Photographer/s: R. Peter Rittling

Date of publication: June 2011

Place of publication: San Francisco, CA

Dimensions: 11×8-3/4 inches

Edition size: 1000

Type of binding: Smyth Sewn

Number of pages: 88

Type of paper: 140 Japanese White A Matt artpaper

Number of pictures: 67

Type of printing: off set printing in duotone

Printer: Oceanic Graphic Printing, Inc

Publisher: Almond Street Press

Language: English

ISBN: 978-0-615-41679-3

Summary: Peter Rittling’s work in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is as much concerned with the formal language of photography as it is with the landscape of the park. The 67 photographs included in this book follow and build on the rich history of American and European urban landscape photography as practiced by such important figures as Eugène Atget, Josef Sudek, and Ray Metzker. The influences for park fugue are not limited to the history of photography, however, but draw from the mediums of drawing and painting including the works of the great American abstract expressionists.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Buffalo, New York, March 30, 1963

Website: www.peter-rittling.com

Book link: http://parkfugue.blogspot.com/

Donated by: R. Peter Rittling, Photographer & Author

Published on December 22, 2011 2:50 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: Almond Street Press, Oceanic Graphic Printing, R. Peter Rittling

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