{"product_id":"blazing-light","title":"Blazing Light","description":"\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Plumb’s photographs give shape to the things that keep us up at night, to the ambiguous and often overwhelming experience of living through times of trepidation and turmoil.\" \u003c\/em\u003e— Gregory Harris, High Museum of Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlazing Light\u003c\/em\u003e is published to coincide with Mimi Plumb’s first solo museum exhibition (High Museum of Art) and brings together three of her major bodies of work—\u003cem\u003eThe White Sky\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLandfall and The Golden City\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Reservoir\u003c\/em\u003e—that collectively contemplate the anxieties of American life in the waning years of the Cold War and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003ePlumb began photographing in the 1970s as a teenager in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek at a time marked by rapid development of the land coupled with global political and economic instability. Her early artistic life was defined by a burgeoning awareness of global warming, the AIDS epidemic, violent conflict in Latin America and the Middle East, and a looming threat of nuclear war. This atmosphere attuned Plumb to the evidence of such forces visible in the land, the built environment, and the ways people carry themselves and relate to one another—concerns that continue in her work to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003ePlumb’s photographs foreground the presence of people, lending her images a greater degree of pathos and even notes of humorous absurdity. Though Plumb embraces realism, her images are ambient and enigmatic, inviting conjecture rather than providing documentary information. The publication will include texts by Gregory Harris, Karen Irvine, Lauren Richman, and Amanda Maddox and Jordan Bass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e9.25 x 11.25 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e264 pages \/ 131 images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Radius Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514163368023,"sku":"RADIUS-Blazing","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1781\/2331\/files\/blazing.jpg?v=1770392525","url":"https:\/\/charcoalbookclub.com\/products\/blazing-light","provider":"Charcoal Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}