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"Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1935, Philip MELNICK grew up in Los Angeles, where he attended the University of California.
In the 1970s, shooting with a medium format camera, Melnick made black-and-white photographs of his surroundings, exploring the unique sense of style found in the Southern California urban landscape.
Photo book 'Nineteen Seventies California' offers a beautifully presented selection of MELNICK’s most striking work from this period, in which he displays a keen eye for the character of its vernacular architecture and the distinctive look of its streets: the quirky confluence of a single parked car with a street facing wall and a fragmented apartment building; the intersection of street, fence and another non-descript apartment house.
Philip MELNICK isolates the intricate pattern of a wall, creating arresting fusions of everyday sights and geometric abstraction." (publisher's note, © Nazraeli, 2014)
Review:
“Philip MELNICK’s images emphasize a push-pull, hard-soft tension that give his pictures distinguished style and great beauty,” (Fred McDarrah, who was himself a photographer for The Village Voice, as well as a writer, during the years that this series was produced)
About the photographer, Philip MELNICK (b. 1935 in Chicago):
Philip MELNICK’s work has been widely exhibited and written about; his photographs are included in the permanent collections of numerous important institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Bibliothèque National, Paris.
In the 1970s, shooting with a medium format camera, Melnick made black-and-white photographs of his surroundings, exploring the unique sense of style found in the Southern California urban landscape.
Photo book 'Nineteen Seventies California' offers a beautifully presented selection of MELNICK’s most striking work from this period, in which he displays a keen eye for the character of its vernacular architecture and the distinctive look of its streets: the quirky confluence of a single parked car with a street facing wall and a fragmented apartment building; the intersection of street, fence and another non-descript apartment house.
Philip MELNICK isolates the intricate pattern of a wall, creating arresting fusions of everyday sights and geometric abstraction." (publisher's note, © Nazraeli, 2014)
Review:
“Philip MELNICK’s images emphasize a push-pull, hard-soft tension that give his pictures distinguished style and great beauty,” (Fred McDarrah, who was himself a photographer for The Village Voice, as well as a writer, during the years that this series was produced)
About the photographer, Philip MELNICK (b. 1935 in Chicago):
Philip MELNICK’s work has been widely exhibited and written about; his photographs are included in the permanent collections of numerous important institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Bibliothèque National, Paris.
- Format
- Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 31 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies