{"title":"John Gossage","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"john-gossage-looking-up-ben-james-book-john-gossage-9783869305899","title":"John Gossage: Looking Up Ben James","description":"\"It is spring 2008 and my friend, photographer and book collector John Gossage is coming to the UK. We have planned to embark upon a minor road trip together. All John requests is that I drive and that we visit some 'typical Parr seaside locations'. No problem.\" Martin Parr \"The protagonist of this work, \"the photographer\", Mr. Parr is pictured throughout the book.\" John Gossage Martin Parr and John Gossage's British coastal trip covered spots like Georgian Clifton (Bristol), Severn Bridge (Wales), and Caerau, the mining village near Cardiff where photographer Robert Frank had made his famous report and met the miner Ben James in 1953. The road took them further north to reach Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, ending in Liverpool, Morecambe and smaller towns in the Lake District. The outcome are shots of street scenes, backyards, gardens, sceneries and very few people on the way, silent testimonies of small, unexpected details of every- day life in a world that is not visited by many, let alone photographed. As Parr concludes in his introductory text: \"I am amazed that the collective vision of this volume is so familiar, but entirely alien. It restores my faith in photography to kno w that a mature and original photographer like John Gossage can see the things I just did not notice.\" John Gossage , born in New York in 1946, now residing in Was hington, D.C., briefly studied with Lisette Model and Alexey Brodovitch from 1960 to 1961. In the late 1960s he learned Telecaster guitar from Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton, giving up professional music in 1973 and returning to photography. From 1974 through 1990 he had various exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. From 1990 on he has been concentrating almost exclusively on publications, producing twenty-four different books and boxes on specific bodies of photographic work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737461465361,"sku":"NGR9783869305899","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51063897424145,"sku":"NIN9783869305899","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3869305894.jpg?v=1769683064"},{"product_id":"john-gossage-i-love-you-so-much-book-john-gossage-9783958296749","title":"John Gossage: I Love You So Much!!!!!!!!!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fourth in John Gossage's ongoing photobook series displaying his unique knack for the poetry of pattern and of place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Things, people and events harbor within them more than we can know or understand, until looked at with slight inflection. If you get it right, you don't have to explain.\" With this characteristic off-kilter curiosity, John Gossage (born 1946) continues his loving yet critical, generous yet ironic vision of America; Gossage is as always open to the wonders of the everyday and he relishes the poetry of pattern in his subjects--the ripples of a tablecloth, a grid of tiles, the serpentine curls of an electrical cord. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe title of the book is taken from a handwritten inscription Gossage found on an old but beloved car in Rochester, Minnesota, for him a moment of gritty glory: \"It read like an afterlife, a murmur of its inhabitants long after they had parked the car and left.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51201542816017,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51201545994513,"sku":"NGR9783958296749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3958296742.jpg?v=1750935732"},{"product_id":"john-gossage-pomodori-a-grappolo-book-john-gossage-9781934435847","title":"John Gossage: pomodori a grappolo","description":"\u003ci\u003ePomodori a grappolo\u003c\/i\u003e is a set of three interconnected books by photographer and bookmaker John Gossage. Each book gathers images made in Northern Italy and Sardinia between 2009 and 2011, and each includes a short text by Marlene Klein. The written pieces-two stories and one epilogue-have been created in response to Gossage's pictures, and reflect the 30 years that Klein has spent living and working in Venice. An unexpected approach runs through all the details of the books, from the way elements repeat, or don't, to the choice of materials and color. Since these three books are each a different trim size but include photos that are reproduced at the exact same size, the collective project functions as a study of the way that ink on paper can inform perception. The resulting objects are classic Gossage-clever, unique and engrossing. A limited edition of the books, held together with magnets in a disorderly way, further explores these concepts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141248348433,"sku":"NLS9781934435847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781934435847.jpg?v=1757576865"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-john-gossage.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}