Bird Watching
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.91 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568988559 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Paula McCartney is a photographer and book artist based in Minneapolis whose work has been exhibited nationally and is held in private and public collections
Handwritten notations recording species, location, size, and markings describe well-rendered and flawlessly composed photographs of a wide variety of passerines, orperching birds, in their natural settings in locations across the United States. As photographs in a bird-watchers field journal they become something else entirely. Featuring a design that mimics the tactility of a real bird-watching journal and including essays by Darius Himes and Karen Irvine, this book will appeal to the dreamy naturalist in all of us.. You have now before you a representation of one of the most richly coloured of birds, and one whose history is in some degree peculiar.John James Audubon, The Birds of AmericaA spotted wren perches on the limb of a pine tree in a field of daisies. McCartney has activated her atmospheric landscapes by adding synthetic decorative birds purchased at craft stores. Aneven closer look reveals stiff wire protrusions mounting each bird to its perch, matted tufts of overdyed faux feathers forming wings and splashes of paint creating eyes and beaks. Part document and part fiction, Paula McCartney's Bird Watching is a fanciful, homespun field guide to a woodland twilight zone where our unconscious need to controlnature is indu
Art and nature libraries alike will relish the different approach BIRD WATCHING offers author Paula McCartney's handwritten notes on birds and observations with photos of birds in natural settings across the country, and makes for a powerful survey that is not all that it first seems at first glance. For wait - are those overdyed faux feathers? Paint? This blends art with science as it provides a lively field guide with natural history observation, pairing essays. "Five Stars" according to rebecca l. finley. A really beautiful book. I'm so glad I have a copy.
The opening reception for Paula McCartneys Bird Watching will be Wednesday, March 3, from 68pm, the exhibit runs from March 4 to April 23, 2010 at Klompching Gallery, New York. "Another clever subversion of the observer's expectations, Bird Watching documents artist Paula McCartney's recent work in art and nature photography. It is in this disclosure, though, that Bird Watching is so successful." --Englewood Review of Books, March 5, 2010"Speaking of birds, love this photograph by Paula McCartney, who has a new book out as well as a show opening in NY at Klompching Gallery tonight." --Quintessence, March 3, 2010"Given the ability of photographers to Photoshop their bird and nature pictures, to remove twigs and branches, add or remove items, change the backgrounds, the lighting, the position of the sun, etc., it's curious to compare how an artist purposely manipulates a scene the way McCartney does with the purposeful manipulatio