HENRY WESSEL WAIKIKI

Zusammenfassung Waikiki, one of Honolulu’s most famous neighbourhoods, had already become a crowded tourist destination whenWessel photographed there in the late seventies and early eighties. This book contains Wessel’s edit of these picturesand is a record of American leisure at this time: of surf, sand and inexhaustible pleasure-seekers. Yet Wessel equallyexplores the contradictions of Waikiki – concrete hotels invading pristine beaches, culture encroaching on nature.Despite all the fun in the sun, Wessel’s subjects are often distanced and dissatisfied, suggesting an underlying unease.Born in New Jersey in 1942, Henry Wessel has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships and three fellowships fromthe National Endowment for the Arts. His work is held in the permanent collections of major American, European andAsian museums. Wessel has exhibition extensively, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New Yorkand the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Corey Keller, Henry Wessel, Wessel Henry
• Publisher: Steidl Druckerei und Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9783869303000
• ISBN: 978-3-86930-300-0
• Dimensions: 300 mm x 300 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business; Fotografie, Tourismus, Pazifik, USA, Hawaii, Fotografie, Computerkunst, entdecken, coffee-table-book, Coffee table book, Honolulu