{"product_id":"travelog-9780262580267","title":"Travelog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"My photographs are both real and surreal \" Charles Harbutt writes of this book  containing some 120 examples of his work. \"For a while I called them superbanalisms. I dont think of this book as a portfolio of my best work  but rather as an integrated set of photographs that express where I have been psychologically  emotionally  physically. In a way it is Bloom walking the world. The loneliness  alienation  and fears  the lusts and sexual sorrows  the difficulties of sustaining emotional relationships. The damage people do to each other and the delight they can and do give one another. Throughout the desire to break free. At the same time it is about what is specifically photographic about photography....\"  Harbutts art was developed within the documentary tradition that has nurtured such other Magnum photographers as Cartier-Bresson  Robert Capa  and Werner Bischof. Nevertheless  in the images caught and fixed so sharply here  Harbutt transcends this tradition  not by denying it  but by bridging the gap between the abstract or \"pure\" photograph and the documentary statement. Although the book does not follow the too-prevalent narrative documentary pattern in which visual statements are in part determined by a preconceived verbal scenario  still the progression of the images reveals consistencies of theme and structure that are appropriate to a genuine book  as opposed to an exhibit of photographs unrelated except by quality that is reproduced in book format. The book is absolutely \"literate\" in terms of the photographic medium itself: formal values and content are so totally fused that one is able to \"read\" it many times and find deeper meanings each time.  The subject matter Harbutt looks at and into is common to the experience of us allbut he sees it in an intensely uncommon  personal way  and in turn he allows us to share in his vision. The first three sections of the book reveal the World  the Flesh  and the Devil.  \"The World\" brings the inanimate to lifeautomobiles and buses and buildings are seen largely in isolation from their human context and assume a reality and animation all their own. \"The Flesh\" is a revelation of pure humanitychildren are caught in the act of growing up; adults are shown leaving clues to the meaning of their groping lives. \"The Devil\" is a nighttown of images of evilreligious incantations  sideshow bacchanals  dry bones in a coffin.  In a final section  Harbutt-Bloom returns from his odyssey  bringing his travelog full circle. In \"Home \" he lovingly observes wooden chairs waiting in a garden  a boat in a bathtub  a curtain blowing in an upstairs window  a bird  a dog  a child at play  a family relaxing together under the warm rays of the sun....  Harbutts work has appeared in all major international magazines and has been exhibited throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67615931138101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262580268","price":241.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262580267_727ee38c-82f1-49af-bed9-e07d45f4f334.jpg?v=1791194479","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/travelog-9780262580267","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}