Backyard
oasis : the swimming pool in Southern California photography, 1945-1982 /
edited by Daniell Cornell ; research team essays, Daniell Cornell... [et al.] ;
with a contribution by Robert Atkins.
DelMonico
Books/Prestel : Palm Springs Art Museum, Munich [etc.]: 2012
256 p. :
il.
"Publicado
con ocasión de la exposición "Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in
Southern California Photography, 1945-1982", celebrada en el Palm Springs
Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, 21 enero-27 mayo, 2012.
ISBN 9783791351766
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-725.74 BAC
OPAC Millennium
Southern California’s pool culture is the subject of this unique and
luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution
of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre.
Since the end of World War II, southern California's backyard pools -
those blue-green oases in an otherwise often arid landscape - have
symbolized any number of American ideals: optimism, wealth, consumerism,
escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of man over nature.
Simultaneously, the field of photography developed as a transformative
method for recording the human condition. This exhibition catalogue
celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind
collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty
post-war artists and photographers. It presents works by photographers
and artists including Bill Anderson, John Baldessari, Ruth Bernhard,
David Hockney, Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Julius Shulman, and Larry Sultan.
Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity
culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape
design and the cult of the body, these images offer a rich study of the
cultural connotations of the swimming pool. Six insightful essays
provide a comprehensive overview of the development of the swimming pool
and its attendant aesthetic and social culture.
Links
Prestel | Backyard oasis: the swimming pool in Southern California photography, 1945-1982
Palm Springs Art Museum | Backyard oasis: the swimming pool in Southern California photography, 1945-1982
Documentation
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982
Metalocus, 2012-06-28
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California
Daisy Woodward | AnOther, 2012-03-02
Breaking the Surface
‘Backyard Oasis’ uses photography to show how the allure of Southern California swimming pools influenced America’s postwar ethos
Steven Biller | Palm Springs Life, [s.d.]
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