synopsis
From the publisher: "When [Australian photographer] Max Pam began his wanderings through Asia at the age of 20, the Katmandu phenomenon was at its height. What was at stake was more than a taste for new--or forbidden--experiences. A whole fringe of Pam's generation was expressing vehemently its refusal of a society geared to productivity and consumerism, and was seeking answers to its doubts and questions through encounters with other cultures and forms of society. For Max Pam, the photographic act has always played a full part in this existential adventure. It is in itself a way of experiencing the world at very close hand. 'These photographs are my autobiography,' he says. Whether they reveal the daily struggle for survival or a totally unexpected discovery, they are all definitive expressions of fragments of an existence involved in a perpetual process of awakening and becoming. From the Middle East to the Himalayas, from Thailand to the Philippines, from India to China, we follow Max Pam along paths where the joy of encounters nurtures self-knowledge."
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technical information
publisher : Marval
1992
184 pages
dimensions : 25 x 33 cm
languages : french / english
1992
184 pages
dimensions : 25 x 33 cm
languages : french / english
about Max Pam
Max Pam, (born Melbourne, 1949) is a contemporary Australian photographer. Pam’s work takes the viewer on compelling journeys around the globe, recording observations with an often surrealist intensity, matching the heightened sensory awareness of foreign travel. The work frequently implies an interior, psychic journey, corresponding with the physical journey of travel.
His work in Asian counties is well represented in publications as are his travels in Europe, Australia, and the Indian Ocean Rim cultures including India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Yemen, The Republic of Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Cocos and Christmas Islands. The images leave the viewer, as Tim Winton said in Going East (Marval 1992), “grateful for having been taken so mysteriously by surprise and so far and sweetly abroad.”
His work in Asian counties is well represented in publications as are his travels in Europe, Australia, and the Indian Ocean Rim cultures including India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Yemen, The Republic of Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Cocos and Christmas Islands. The images leave the viewer, as Tim Winton said in Going East (Marval 1992), “grateful for having been taken so mysteriously by surprise and so far and sweetly abroad.”
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publisher : Marval
1992 (1st edition)
1992 (1st edition)