Nancy Holt: Photoworks
Nancy Holt’s photoworks constitute a major body of work by one of the key artists of the late twentieth century. Nancy Holt: Photoworks was developed in close consultation with the artist, as she mined her extraordinary photographic practice.
Nancy Holt: Photoworks was published on the occasion of the 2012 exhibition of the same title at Haunch of Venison, London, UK, which was the first time an exhibition was dedicated solely to a comprehensive look at Holt’s photographic works.
Photography was an essential medium for Holt. It has both serial and circular qualities, enabling Holt to put the surrounding environment in the frame, capture it from a certain perspective and allow, as she described, photography allows “vision to be fixed.”
Nancy Holt: Photoworks highlights works from Holt’s practice, including series made while traveling through various landscapes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Series such as Trail Markers (1969) and California Sun Signs (1972) show the ways in which Holt’s interest in language, concrete poems, and seriality from her works on paper extended into her photographic series.
An introduction by Ben Tufnell and the essay “Desire Lines” by Douglas Fogle situate Holt’s photography in relationship to her sculptures, earthworks, drawings, and most importantly, her way of seeing the world. Nancy Holt considered herself a “perception artist”; through her photographic works Holt encourages us to see the world through her lens, and in turn, reconsider how we perceive the world around us.
Authors
Douglas Fogle, Ben Tufnell
Editor
Ben Tufnell
Specifications
Haunch of Venison, 2012
ISBN 978-1-905620-66-1
Hardback
84 pages
228 x 285 mm / 9 x 11.25 inches
English
Out of print
$30
Nancy Holt’s photoworks constitute a major body of work by one of the key artists of the late twentieth century. Nancy Holt: Photoworks was developed in close consultation with the artist, as she mined her extraordinary photographic practice.
Nancy Holt: Photoworks was published on the occasion of the 2012 exhibition of the same title at Haunch of Venison, London, UK, which was the first time an exhibition was dedicated solely to a comprehensive look at Holt’s photographic works.
Photography was an essential medium for Holt. It has both serial and circular qualities, enabling Holt to put the surrounding environment in the frame, capture it from a certain perspective and allow, as she described, photography allows “vision to be fixed.”
Nancy Holt: Photoworks highlights works from Holt’s practice, including series made while traveling through various landscapes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Series such as Trail Markers (1969) and California Sun Signs (1972) show the ways in which Holt’s interest in language, concrete poems, and seriality from her works on paper extended into her photographic series.
An introduction by Ben Tufnell and the essay “Desire Lines” by Douglas Fogle situate Holt’s photography in relationship to her sculptures, earthworks, drawings, and most importantly, her way of seeing the world. Nancy Holt considered herself a “perception artist”; through her photographic works Holt encourages us to see the world through her lens, and in turn, reconsider how we perceive the world around us.
Authors
Douglas Fogle, Ben Tufnell
Editor
Ben Tufnell
Specifications
Haunch of Venison, 2012
ISBN 978-1-905620-66-1
Hardback
84 pages
228 x 285 mm / 9 x 11.25 inches
English
Out of print
$30
Nancy Holt’s photoworks constitute a major body of work by one of the key artists of the late twentieth century. Nancy Holt: Photoworks was developed in close consultation with the artist, as she mined her extraordinary photographic practice.
Nancy Holt: Photoworks was published on the occasion of the 2012 exhibition of the same title at Haunch of Venison, London, UK, which was the first time an exhibition was dedicated solely to a comprehensive look at Holt’s photographic works.
Photography was an essential medium for Holt. It has both serial and circular qualities, enabling Holt to put the surrounding environment in the frame, capture it from a certain perspective and allow, as she described, photography allows “vision to be fixed.”
Nancy Holt: Photoworks highlights works from Holt’s practice, including series made while traveling through various landscapes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Series such as Trail Markers (1969) and California Sun Signs (1972) show the ways in which Holt’s interest in language, concrete poems, and seriality from her works on paper extended into her photographic series.
An introduction by Ben Tufnell and the essay “Desire Lines” by Douglas Fogle situate Holt’s photography in relationship to her sculptures, earthworks, drawings, and most importantly, her way of seeing the world. Nancy Holt considered herself a “perception artist”; through her photographic works Holt encourages us to see the world through her lens, and in turn, reconsider how we perceive the world around us.
Authors
Douglas Fogle, Ben Tufnell
Editor
Ben Tufnell
Specifications
Haunch of Venison, 2012
ISBN 978-1-905620-66-1
Hardback
84 pages
228 x 285 mm / 9 x 11.25 inches
English
Out of print
$30