DOES YELLOW RUN FOREVER? by Paul Graham

イギリス人フォトグラファー、ポール・グラハム(Paul Graham)の作品集。アイルランド西部で撮影された虹と、全く別の場所で眠る女性、ニューヨークのみすぼらしい店構えをした地金店の写真で構成された本書は、生きることへの不可解さをあえて受容した作者が、結論のない日々の中に存在する美しさや醜さに思わずはっとする瞬間や魔法のような出来事を夢見ることに、それだけで生きる意味があると肯定する。印刷面のPP加工や金色に塗装された小口、ベロア地での装幀など、ブックデザインとしても非常に凝った造りとなっている。

Paul Graham’s Does Yellow Run Forever? comprises a series of photographs touching upon the ephemeral question of what we seek and value in life – love, wealth, beauty, clear-eyed reality or an inner dream world? The work weaves in and out of three groups of images: photographs of rainbows from Western Ireland, a sleeping dreamer, and gold stores in the United States. The imagery leads us from reality to dream and illusion, between fact and spectral phenomena, each entwined one within the other. Does Yellow Run Forever? refuses to reduce the world to a knowable schema, but instead embraces the puzzle - that there are no singular meanings, direct answers, or gold waiting at the end of the rainbow. Yet, there are startling visions in the everyday, be they ‘beautiful’ or ‘ugly’, that there are dreams worth dreaming, magical scenes to be seen, and true moments of wonder to be found as we shiver the mirror of life.

by Paul Graham

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hardcover
96 pages
135 x 190 mm
color
2014

winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2009

published by MACK