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Steidl Publishing
June 2008
On Sale: June 1, 2008
312 pages
ISBN: 3865216846
EAN: 9783865216847
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Non-Fiction Photography
Bill Wood's business was photography, and he produced tens
of thousands of images over the course of his career. A
tall, slender, hardworking family man with a penchant for
bow ties, Wood (1913-1979) was born, lived and died in the
Fort Worth, Texas area, and his photography played a central
role in how his clients chose to see and to portray
themselves and their city. Bill Wood's Business features
approximately 300 of Wood's photographs, alongside essays by
Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman that pay homage to the
skills Wood (and professional photographers like him)
brought to the business of photography. What drew Keaton and
Heiferman to this project was the extraordinary range of
Wood's images, as well as a shared appreciation of archives
and the construction of photographic realities. In an
earlier collaboration, Still Life (1982), Keaton and
Heiferman explored the Surrealism, the fantasies and the
economic motivations percolating beneath the surface of the
glamourous color publicity photographs that Hollywood
studios orchestrated and distributed in the mid-twentieth
century. Since then, Keaton (in her film and book projects)
and Heiferman (in his curatorial, writing and publishing
work) have continued to survey the quirks of American
iconography. Keaton purchased the archive of Wood's
negatives 20 years ago, and in Bill Wood's Business, she and
Heiferman team up again to look at and through photographs,
to show what they are intended to depict and what they
actually reveal.
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