The Nature of Desire OOP Drawing from four American collections

Drawing from four American collections of photographs

"Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound

95 sheet-fed gravure plates

these photographs are the most beautiful reproductions ever made of Horst's work

The Nature of Desire OOP Drawing from four American collections"Photographers are always looking at things, but they never question the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of a corpse tells me nothing of the metaphysical implications of death, which are ultimately more significant than its appearance. A photograph of a person whom we find attractive does not reveal the complex nature of the desire that it provokes in us. we are constantly responding without examining the subtle mechanisms of our response.