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Mediterranean Color: Italy, France , Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Greece by Paul Goldberger, Jeffrey Becom
Mediterranean Color: Italy, France , Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Greece Mediterranean Color: Italy, France , Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Greece by Paul Goldberger, Jeffrey Becom
Publisher : Abbeville Press
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From Publishers Weekly
Becom's photographs of the vernacular architecture of Mediterranean villages are startling, powerful and often piercingly beautiful. Poised between abstraction and realism, his images have the sense of inevitability one associates with great paintings. One hundred color photos are wedded to an engaging travel essay that captures the beauty and bewilderment of daily life in Morocco, the love of excess and sense of isolation in the Italian hill towns, the "majestic, dignified, indifferent, and vain" aura of Spain's sun-drenched villages. Typical shots show a stucco housefront brightly washed with color; a weathered shrine; votive offerings; a painted door; a Portuguese wall strewn with roses. While these photographs contain few people, they seem to embody the traditional cultures they lovingly explore. This marvelous book of quiet discoveries ties in with a joint BBC-PBS documentary.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal
For Mediterranean villagers, dressing their dwellings in bold colors is a way of expressing individuality and pride in a world otherwise ruled by nature and the Church. Becom made their flamboyant architecture the focus of his photographic lens from 1978 to 1988, and the resulting images are here complemented by lively anecdotes. Becom tells of visiting a Venetian fisherman whose cottage he'd photographed five years earlier and finding it painted different hues. As Becom watches, the owner again changes its appearance from lobster-red and yolk-yellow to vermillion and shocking pink. Then there's the tradition of Camogli wives, who coat their narrow, cliffside houses with striking shades so each husband can recognize his home from the sea. Becom's graceful text is as satisfying to the mind as his photographs are to the eye, examining why these peasant traditions arose and why, in most cases, they are dying out.
- Lisa Mullenneaux, Iowa City
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover edition.

Book Description
The sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean are shown as they have never been seen before.

Jeffrey Becom avoids the familiar tourist attractions, focusing instead on the houses of farmers and fishermen, exploring the details of an amazingly varied vernacular architecture. Jeffrey Becom is a traveler in search of color, and he has found a bounty of it in the intimate corners of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and Greece. Complementing the dazzling images is Becom's graceful and informative guide through the regions he has photographed.

About the Author
Jeffrey Becom is a painter, photographer, and writer whose work is exhibited widely. He is also the author of Abbeville's Maya Color. Paul Goldberger has been the architecture critic of The New Yorker since 1977.

Other Details: Now in paperback! 100 full-color illustrations.

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