Published by: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Texts: Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexler
Artists: Grey Crawford
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-86828-779-0
Finding Bones
is a book introducing a newly rediscovered body of work by Grey
Crawford. It’s an anthology of photographs that embody the creative
spirit that was prevalent throughout the Los Angeles art scene at the
time. Southern California in the early 1970’s was an island of its own
creation. A mixture of surf and sea, concrete highways winding around an
ever-changing cultural climate that was challenging our assumptions of
what art is. Crawford chooses his selected backgrounds with a sense of
austerity as a means for introducing these hard edge shapes and using
them as the building blocks for his own language.
The thirty
photographs are silver vintage prints, using Crawford’s hand masking
technique in the darkroom to create a new synthesis of imagery and the
abstract. (From the forword by Timothy Persons)