Snowbound, Lisa Robinson

TITLE Snowbound ARTIST Lisa M. Robinson with Introduction by Mark Strand & Foreword by Celina Lunsford BOOK CONDITION New PRODUCT DETAILS Hardcover: 112 pages; 50 color reproductionsLanguage: English PRICE $60.00 + tax and shipping PUBLISHER KEHRER VERLAG; Heidelberg, Germany, 2007 ISBN ISBN 978-3-939583-50-92 ABOUT THE BOOKFor five winters, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson made photographs in the snow. Snowbound depicts landscapes in which everyday objects - alienated and sunken in snow- civilize the natural surroundings. Traces of human existence set accents in the white landscape, delimiting it and often popping up in an amusing or incongruous way. A lonely hammock, a trampoline or a swimming pool are echoes of both summers past and of personal memories. But Lisa M. Robinson is not interested in showing the obvious; instead, the photographs make use of the many aggregate states of water - ice, snow, fog, water - as metaphors for life and t