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Modern Photography Busch, Douglas Isaac
Water Reservoir.
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452
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Modern Photography Busch, Douglas Isaac
Water Reservoir.
See original version (German)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
Modern Photography
Busch, Douglas Isaac
Water Reservoir. 1987. Plate print on lightly grained Arches Velin (with watermark). 32 x 52 cm (46 x 66 cm). Signed and labelled by a third party, with an embossed remark in the margin. Mounted in places beneath the passe-partout. - Overall, an exceptionally good and clean copy, with the original watermark margin.
See: Douglas Isaac Busch, *In Plain Sight*, Rockford 1993, no. 32. – Using his self-constructed large-format cameras and 12 x 20" negatives, Busch produced contact prints of exceptional sharpness and tonality that required no enlargement. This photograph depicts a massive cylindrical water tower in Rockford, Illinois, which is almost swallowed up by a dense cluster of willow trees, thus becoming a quiet commentary on the agricultural landscape of the Midwest. In his documentary precision and cool objectivity, Busch consciously follows in the footsteps of New Objectivity and American Straight Photography, yet at the same time subverts their sublime reverence for nature by translating monumentality into a form of quiet disquiet. - Accompanied by: Douglas Isaac Busch, In Plain Sight, Rockford 1993.
Block print on lightly grained vellum with a hand-made edge. Signed and inscribed by a third party, with an embossed remark in the margin. Mounted in places beneath the passe-partout. - Overall, an exceptionally fine and clean copy. - Using large-format cameras of his own design and 12x20-inch negatives, Busch produced contact prints of exceptional sharpness and tonal range that could not be achieved through enlargement. This work depicts a massive cylindrical industrial building that is almost swallowed up by densely packed willow trees, thus becoming a silent commentary on the agricultural landscape of the Midwest. With his documentary precision and cool objectivity, Busch consciously follows in the footsteps of New Objectivity and American Straight Photography, yet at the same time subverts their sublime reverence for nature by translating monumentality into a form of quiet irritation. - Enclosed: Douglas Isaac Busch, *In Plain Sight*, Rockford 1993.
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