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A Kind of Rapture | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Bergman
Creators: Meyer Schapiro, Toni Morrison
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 586594
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 067944257X
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2092
EAN: 9780679442578
ASIN: 067944257X
Publication Date: November 3, 1998
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Condition: Ex lib with mylar covered DJ and associated markings.Gently used.Very clean.No international or expedited shipping please. Book is too big.
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Product Description
"A Kind of Rapture" brings together a selection of photos from Bergman's two-year travels by car through the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. 51 color photos.
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In the history of artistic endeavor... December 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ten years ago this month A KIND OF RAPTURE was published. Toni Morrison boldly states in the Introduction that this collection of photographs by Robert Bergman will "forever mark a place in the history of artistic endeavor." You might accept this claim simply as generous enthusiasm--until this astonishing gallery of portraits unfolds before your eyes. Not since the publication of Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS (1958, French edition) has any photographic book searched the soul of America with such unexpected and artistically profound results. Like Robert Frank, Robert Bergman set out by car, traveling across America, capturing unplanned encounters with a simple 35mm camera. Bergman's book, A KIND OF RAPTURE, was published in 1998. Exactly four decades subsequent to THE AMERICANS, the world was given a photobook comparable in vision and originality to Robert Frank's landmark book. Open A KIND OF RAPTURE and you will conclude it was well worth the wait.
Windows to the soul August 29, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
These are images that go beyond being visually powerful, they also have a profound spiritual, emotional and intellectual meaning. Toni Morrison's provocative meditation, "The Fisherwoman", is an integral part of this great work of art and provides a perfect entree into a gallery of sacred beauty.
A Universal Treasure! August 28, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Let me say that being able to hold this treasure in my hands and to feel the souls of both the artist and those within, provides an experience I never thought I would have. This book is a road map to the soul of all of us and it is my wish for everyone who is fortunate enough to see it that the door to the inner self that shines from Bergman's work is opened to them. It is a rich feeling indeed to be able to open the book at any point and see the face and love of God. Bergman is blessed with a vision that has brought this to Everyman. A KIND OF RAPTURE is a great and universal gift.
A work unlike any other November 24, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This superb book is nearly uncategorizable. The portraits contained in this volume, described as "color pictures of everyday people" taken with "a simple 35-mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting" are unlike any other photographs ever published. On a technical level, Robert Bergman's work equals the best of any of photographer now working (including any of a number of celebrity lensmen) while his painterly use of color, texture, and composition is unrivaled. This in itself would be enough for most photographers: in sensual terms there's much to startle and delight the eye. But for Bergman, the revelation of the inner life of the subject reigns supreme, and his masterly technique is entirely in the service of his manifest sympathy for each person whom he presents to us. It's here that these images depart so markedly from what we are used to seeing in a photograph of a person--each individual is revealed with the most penetrating gaze, but with such tenderness of spirit as to leave his or her human dignity unsullied. It's not photography, it's art. As Toni Morrison concludes in her Introduction, "Occasionally there arises an event or moment that one knows immediately will forever mark a place in the history of artistic endeavor. Robert Bergman's portraits represent such a moment, such an event."
Among the most breathtaking color portraits you will see. November 22, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am much more of a devotee of black and white images than color - especially portrait photography. But, this incredible display of artistry sweeps me off my feet! The artistic depth and personal sensitivity displayed through this work makes me want to know more and see more from the master photographer who created it. You won't be disappointed with this purchase!
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