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Showing photography with musical accompaniment has been done many times. But Tone Poems—Book 1 by Bruce Barnbaum, accompanied by a compact disc of piano music played by Judith Cohen, integrates the two art forms in a way never done before. It is a uniquely creative project whose complete impact is greater than the sum of its parts.

Tone Poems–Book 1 is the first of four books in a collaboration between the two. The four-book series will feature more than 350 photographs covering much of Barnbaum’s prodigious output of fine art photographs, none of which were published in his acclaimed 1986 monograph, Visual Symphony.

Tone Poems—Book 1 is a large-format book measuring 121/4 ¥ 12 inches. It includes 90 photographs in three different sections (or opuses): Opus 1, “Enigmas, Abstractions and Surprises”; Opus 2, “Darkness and Despair”; and Opus 3, “Lyricism of the Land.”

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