2019 “Lamentations” Tina Freeman New Orleans Museum of Art Exhibition Catalog Signed Hardcover Book

Up for sale is a 2019 “Lamentations” Tina Freeman New Orleans Museum of Art Exhibition Catalog Signed Hardcover Book! It measures 11 3/8” by 12 3/8” around the outside cover and contains 84 pages. The piece is in great overall condition with minor signs of wear consistent with its age and use (contains all pages; some scattered light surface wear to dust jacket). Please message us if you have any questions. Thanks!

This exceptional hardcover monograph, “Lamentations”, serves as the authoritative exhibition catalog for acclaimed photographer Tina Freeman’s landmark presentation at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Published in 2019 by the New Orleans Museum of Art in collaboration with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, this finely printed volume presents a profound visual dissertation on the contemporary realities of global climate change by exploring the deep, undeniable ecological connectedness between disparate geographical regions. Freeman utilizes a brilliant structural format, arranging her large-scale color landscape photographs as precise diptychs that pair hauntingly beautiful imagery of the rapidly vanishing Louisiana wetlands directly alongside the dramatic, melting glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic. By placing the thawing polar ice caps in immediate visual conversation with the rising sea levels of the Gulf Coast, the work masterfully illustrates how environmental degradation in one corner of the globe dictates the physical realities of another, further enriched by scholarly text contributions from curator Russell Lord, scientist Brent Goehring, and coastal expert David Muth. For institutions and serious bibliophiles of contemporary photography, this specific copy carries immense collector value as it features the authentic signature of the artist, Tina Freeman, directly on the title page, and uniquely retains its original, institutional black paper page insert from the New Orleans Museum of Art designating the volume as a special "Signed by Artist" museum edition. This ephemeral insert serves as impeccable provenance that firmly ties the book to its original museum exhibition run, elevating the volume from a standard catalog into a rare, highly collectible piece of photographic history that represents an essential acquisition for curators and collectors dedicated to fine art landscape photography, environmental art, and conceptually rigorous photographic formats.

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