Diving
Discription: To swim is to tempt fate. To move, says Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen, from the “security of the uneventful dry” to the “adventurous insecurity of the wet.” It’s a game humans play with Eros and Thanatos, he argues. Love and death. “The embrace of water is an erotic one, yet at the same time its cool fingers presage the immediacy of mortality,” writes Mr. van Leeuwen, former professor of architectural history and criticism at the University of Leiden. Author of the book: The Springboard in the Pond : An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool. A dazzling reflection on the American swimming pool as an icon of modernism and a social, architectural, and psychological phenomenon.
Date: unknown
Artist: unknown
Product type: silver gelatine print
Authentication: Stamp on the back "Illustrated" copyright photograph
Dimensions: 15,8 cm x 10,7 cm
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