{"product_id":"the-artificial-of-the-real-anton-josef-trcka-edward-weston-helmut-newton","title":"THE ARTIFICIAL OF THE REAL Anton Josef Trcka, Edward Weston, Helmut Newton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Artificial of the Real,\u003c\/em\u003e featuring these three photographers, \u003cstrong\u003eAnton Josef Trčka, Edward Weston and Helmut Newton, \u003c\/strong\u003ehighlights the complex ways in which humans have perceived themselves within their world throughout the century, demonstrating how photography can render the artificiality of reality perceptible.\n\nIn Anton Josef Trčka's work, nature serves as a picturesque enhancement to his portraits and explores it as a means of expressing new forms of humanity through photography that is both intimately close and distantly abstract.\n\nEdward Weston depicts it in its most fundamental and pure forms, embodying both reality and metaphor and views the body as an essence of pure form, representing physical existence in its most abstract way.\n\nHelmut Newton, on the other hand, views bodies as the product of a director's imaginative vision—genuinely rooted in reality, yet artistically detached for effect and sets nature as a hyper-real backdrop, crafting visual worlds that resonate with contemporary audiences.\n\nAlthough technically a catalog for a 1998 German exhibition curiously titled \u003cem\u003eThe Artificial of the Real, \u003c\/em\u003ethe large-format, clothbound book is beautifully reproduced. Exhibition catalogs often present artists in the freshest and most insightful light, and this book is no exception. It offers a rare opportunity to glimpse the work of three accomplished photographers and to gain some understanding of how their work is viewed today.\n\n\u003cb\u003eOut Of Print. Condition: Very Fine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kestner Gesellschaft, Scalo, D.A.P. [distributor]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643037974814,"sku":"RB6483","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB6483-artificial-of-the-real.jpg?v=1784513183","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/the-artificial-of-the-real-anton-josef-trcka-edward-weston-helmut-newton","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}