Issued in connection with an exhibition held June 22-Oct. 13, 2013, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California. The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119).
Summary:
The first publication dedicated to Rose Mandel, a pioneering woman in photography, introduces her remarkable, if often overlooked, body of work to a wider audience. Born in Poland, Rose Mandel immigrated to California in 1942. A love of photography soon brought her into contact with Edward Weston, and then with Ansel Adams and Minor White, both of whom had a strong influence on Mandel's work. Including her important sequence 'The Errand of the Eye', this book presents the sensitivity and clarity of Mandel's vision. Images from natural and man-made environments, eloquent portraits, and abstract landscapes convey Mandel's delight in the compositions and patterns that can be found anywhere, whether walking along a city street or a country path. These photographs are the result of a highly refined sense of craftsmanship and a complex understanding of psychology and abstract expressionism that caused Mandel to be described as "a painter with a camera." 0Exhibition: de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (22.6.-13.10.2013).
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