Our World

Oliver, Mary; Molly Malone Cook

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Beacon Press, 2007

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Intertwined in art and life: the prose of Mary Oliver and the photographs of Molly Malone Cook Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was Oliver’s partner for many years, a pioneer gallery owner and photographer. This book joins Cook’s photographs with Oliver’s prose—a uniquely intimate intertwining of their lives and art. There are famous faces here, among them Lorraine Hansberry, Walker Evans, Norman Mailer, and even, through a restaurant window in Venice, Jean Cocteau. Other artists and dozens of wonderful characters and scenes are also immortalized by Cook’s unfailing eye for telling detail and perfect composition—two strangers playing chess, laundry billowing in a cityscape, a Pueblo Indian with his 1958 Cadillac. Mary Oliver writes of Cook’s work, the people they knew, and the places they visited or lived. The poet’s beautiful text captures not only the unique qualities of her partner’s work, but the very texture of their shared world. Within the art world, Molly Malone Cook made her reputation as an early advocate of photography as an art form; she was a champion of the work of now-famous photographers, including Edward Steichen, Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, and W. Eugene Smith. Perhaps as important, in Mary Oliver’s moving words, Cook taught the beginner poet “to see, with searching attention, and compassion.” “Her most affecting work [is] not in verse but in prose…remembrances of her relationship with photographer Molly Malone Cook, who died two years ago. Oliver’s half-dozen passages recalling her partner from Our World [are] heartfelt, intimate, loving.” —John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/5/08 “The photographs Oliver has chosen reflect Cook's intuitive relationship with her subjects (even inanimate objects). The little girl on the stoop in New York City looks directly at the photographer, as does a kindly Robert Motherwell and a fierce, almost intimidating Walker Evans. Even though most of the photographs are dominated by a central person or object, there is a lot to look at in the margins, all part of the story. The stance of her subjects—reading a book, looking through a telescope—is always distinctive, creating the mood of the entire composition. The two photos of Oliver could have been taken only by someone who knew the subject well.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, L. A. Times, 1/6/08 “Cook was evidently an accomplished printer as well as a photographer and the images have been beautifully reproduced…In a photo which Cook took of Jean Cocteau dining in Venice in May 1954—one of her several fine portraits of celebrities—we glimpse the photographer silhouetted in an oval mirror on the wall behind the French poet. Her own face is hidden by her upheld camera but we sense that she controls the composition. In this selection of Cook’s work, so admirable in intention, she herself remains something of a shadow in a mirror. But perhaps, given her honesty of eye, we come to know her best by seeing the world as it once appeared through the discretion of her lens.” —Eric Ormsby, The New York Sun, 12/5/2007.…

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Titre
Our World
Auteur
Oliver, Mary; Molly Malone Cook
Éditeur
Beacon Press
Année de publication
2007
État de l'article
New
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0807068802
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780807068809

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