The Beauty of Impermanence
Fine art photography book | Black and white photographs from Ireland, Italy, Canada, Cuba, and the United States
The Beauty of Impermanence is a fine art photography book by Bret Culp, bringing together black and white images made in Ireland, Italy, Canada, Cuba, and the United States.
The photographs explore impermanence through landscapes, ruins, and traces of human presence shaped by time, weather, memory, and decay. Paired with selected poems, proverbs, and literary excerpts, the book reflects on impermanence as both a Buddhist concept and a visible condition of the physical world.
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About the Book
Published in 2015, The Beauty of Impermanence is an early artist book that brings together many of the themes that continue to shape Bret Culp’s photography: transience, memory, disappearance, renewal, and the beauty found in the passage of time.
The book combines formally composed black and white photographs with selected literary passages, creating a quiet meditation on impermanence in the natural and built world.
“The transitory nature of existence binds everything in the material world. Careful observation reveals the beauty within each fleeting moment.”
— Bret Culp
Book Details
The Beauty of Impermanence
Bret Culp
Landscape format: 10 × 8 inches / 25 × 20 cm
100 pages
ISBN 978-0-9810253-0-8
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