US $ 50
UK £ 30

August 2008
Hardcover
Photography


ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-293-8
ISBN: 1-55595-293-3
132 pages
11 x 11 in.
28 x 28 cm.
90 tritones

♦ Portrays the look and the life of the water-borne city and its citizens, cloaked in the quiet romance of winter

♦ Of interest to collectors of fine art photography, travelers, and lovers of Italy

In Serenissima: Venice in Winter, Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman provide a stunning combination of fine journalistic photography with lyrical text to capture the visual magic that occurs when "the most serene republic" reclaims itself as a living, breathing city that once more becomes a place "of water-filled streets,velvet shadows and footsteps echoing off paving stones in the post-midnight silence."

Six years in the making and shot entirely in black and white, the images in this stunning publication combine a sense of architecture with an instinct for the captured moment in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, and the great Italian photojournalist Gianni Berengo Gardin. Frank Van Riper's essay shows the same literary mastery that won him a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and reflects the dreamlike quality of the photographs while also acknowledging the mystery and magic for which Venice is famous.

Frank Van Riper and Judith Goodman are a husband-and-wife team whose specialty is location portraiture and documentary photography. Van Riper's photographs are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery. He is also a photography journalist for The Washington Post.