Stone: A Substantial Witness: A Substantial Witness

by David Scheinbaum (Photographer), Van Tilburg Jo Anne (Contribution by)

Overview

Stone captures the enduring quality and varied uses of stone: a building material, a medium for sculpture, and a part of landscape. Photographs from around the world —including Roman ruins in Sicily, India's Palani Temple, Normandy, Stonehenge, the Great Wall, Kyoto, and New York—are juxtaposed with text by a leading authority on stone and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890134948
Publisher:	Museum of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	11/16/2006
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

David Scheinbaum is a photographer and fine art photography dealer. He is a former director of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe and is also the coauthor of Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching.

Editorial Reviews

The line of a poem by Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda opens this book and inspired its title. However, a different line also seems to summarize the atmosphere Scheinbaum (photography, Coll. of Santa Fe) creates with the 114 duotones contained herein: "Silence is intensified into a stone." The scenes of monuments, be they humanmade or natural, are meditative, with few people around to disturb the focus on sublime aesthetics. And because there is no text accompanying the individual photos (except where locations are noted), interpretation is left up to the viewer. Scheinbaum shot these images from 1994 to 2005 in the American Southwest; New York City; Washington, DC; continental Europe; the British Isles; Asia; and Easter Island. In the opening essay, "Rock of Ages," Jo Anne Van Tilburg (archaeology, UCLA) insightfully puts the photos in context by discussing stone as material, stone as medium, stone carving and building, stone in the landscape, and stone as substantial witness. The vertical and horizontal photographs are all in a small rectangular format, which makes them appear slablike in themselves. Some are of closeup details; others are distance views-all are beautiful. Recommended for all public and academic libraries.
—Anne Marie Lane

Library Journal