Max Steven Grossman in Mizner's Dream
January 15, 2019
The 2018-2019 edition of Mizner's Dream is available, featuring an editorial about Max-Steven Grossman.
By The Book
Max Steven Grossman is a celebrated digital photographer. But he's also, in a more unorthodox sense, a librarian. Each photograph is his signature series, Bookscapes, is a collage of related books - extravagant coffee-table tomes, biographies, critical compendiums, art history surveys - that do not exist outsite the artist' imagination. As art professor Natalia Brizuela wrote in a 2017 essay about Grossman's work "The books in every image have never quite been placed in that way except in the virtual space of his computer... When looked at from a close distance, you can see that the each book spine has a distinct image quality, revealing their different provenance, their composite or collage character."
Read the full text (pages 120-123) here.
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