Name: Crows Ascending
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Crows Ascending

Crows Ascending is a very moving and quietly passionate remembrance of [Elliot Ross’s] brother’s (and so many others’) passing during COVID. The metaphor of earthly escape is powerful. It is also beautifully designed and produced. – Barbara Tannenbaum (Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs – The Cleveland Museum of Art)

During the pandemic years, Elliot Ross captured images of crows taking to the air from the roofs surrounding his apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco, California.

It became a contemplative piece of art about one of the most intelligent bird species in existence.

Author: Elliot Ross

Description

We decided to design and publish an artist’s book-like publication, though with a normal print run of course. Only a small selection of the very best images were used for this exquisitely produced book.

Crows Ascending is dedicated to the memory of Elliot’s younger brother Michael. Michael had a profound intellectual disability caused by lifelong epilepsy. He survived a severe case of Covid-19 in 2020 only to die of Parkinson’s-related pneumonia months later. It is also dedicated to the millions of others who have suffered or died in the United States – many due to government inaction – from Covid-19.

Elliot Ross was born in Chicago in 1947. He received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in many provate collections as well as in permanent collections in the United States and abroad, including those of the Center for Creative Photography, the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
His other publications include the critically acclaimed books Animal (2010) and Other Animals (2014), both released by Schilt Publishing. Elliot Ross lives in San Francisco and New York with his wife, the writer Ellen Ullman.

Design: Victor Levie, Levievandermeer (Amsterdam)
ISBN 978 90 5330 961 2
Format: 23.5 x 26.7 cm
Hardcover, sewn, with cloth-covered card on both front and back
48 pages with 20 photos in duotone
Special fold-out end sheet with all images in smaller size repeated as a piece of art in itself

Features & Reviews
Elliot’s interview at Talking Animals radio show – starts around 40:18
About Photography
Black+White Photography Magazine