Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds

This book from awardwinning Magnum photographer Harry Gruyaert collects his most cinematic images to date.A master of colorsaturated atmospheres, Harry Gruyaert has roamed the world searching for the perfect light for more than forty years. His intuitive and physical relationship to places immerses the spectator in a world that borrows from the cinematic universe and from that of the painter. A good photo is a photo that says a lot of things about the place and the moment it was taken, says Gruyaert. Spaceits complexity, the perception that we have of it, its plasticityis a major component of Gruyaerts images, as if the duality between color and spatiality was dissolving in order to create a work where the only thing that matters is the pleasure of immersion.Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds dissolves the boundaries between exterior and interior spaces, a closed world and one that is open to elsewhere. From shops, cafs, subway platforms, and hotel roomsin Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and Africa from the1970s to today, Gruyaert deploys the very essence of visual writing:a luminous alchemy suspended in time. A collection of seventyfive images that connect one realm with the next, this volume shows that beyond the marvelous colorist that he is, Gruyaerts images also depict a photographers vision of the world. 75 color illustrations