{"product_id":"blazing-light","title":"Blazing Light","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlazing Light\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMimi Plumb\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9798890181312\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRadius Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlazing Light is published to coincide with Mimi Plumb's first solo museum exhibition of the same name (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia) and brings together three of her major bodies of work--\u003ci\u003eThe White Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLandfall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGolden\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCity\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReservoir\u003c\/i\u003e--that collectively contemplate the anxieties of American life in the waning years of the Cold War and its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1970s, Plumb began photographing 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 in the land, the built environment, and the ways people carry themselves and relate to one another--concerns that continue to abide in her work to this day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlumb's photographs foreground the presence of people, lending her images a greater degree of pathos and even notes of humorous absurdity. Though the artist embraces realism, her photographs are more ambient and enigmatic, inviting conjecture rather than providing documentary information. The publication will include texts by Gregory Harris, curator of the exhibition; Karen Irvine, chief curator and deputy director at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; and Lauren Richman, curator of photography at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlumb's work is held in numerous public collections, including the High Museum of Art (GA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), Yale University Art Gallery (CT), and the Deutsche Börse Collection (Germany). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Mimi Plumb: Blazing Light exhibition will be on view at the High Museum of Art from February 6-May 5, 2026. The exhibition will then travel to the Johnson Museum at Cornell University, NY (summer 2026), the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL (winter 2026\/2027), followed by the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL (spring 2027).\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Radius Books","offers":[{"title":"Blazing Light | Mimi Plumb | Hardcover | 9798890181312 | New | Photography 1751302","offer_id":48952579293336,"sku":"1751302","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91jq2d52RzL.jpg?v=1777658471","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/blazing-light","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}