Publisher: Callaway Editions ISBN-10: 093511243X Author: Kelly Klein (photographer) Binding: Hardback Pages: 224 Size: 260x310 mm Photographer and fashion designer Klein's eye for the fetching image is good and intelligent. The photographs in this thematic album, most of them printed to fill an entire 10-by-12-inch page or two, seem selected for beauty's sake and to emphasize the cross as both form and religious symbol. The cross is implicit in the human body: stand with feet together and arms at right angles to the torso, and you are a cross. Time and again, that physical fact invests a particular photo with meaning. A bare-chested young man pulls a leather helmet over his head; a cross of light glimmering through the mask's nose aperture is echoed by the youth's upper arms and torso and, hovering over his apparently purposive gaze, conjures the militancy of a crusader. Virtually every picture, black-and-white or color, fashion photo or documentary snapshot, is as dramatically suggestive, though often more subtly, and as ponderable. This is photography as theology.
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