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4 Decades Of Seascapes From A Color Photography Innovator

Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert has spent his career traveling the world and capturing slices of life. His book Edges captures humanity's attraction to the water, spanning 44 years.
Berck Beach, France, 2007.

In the foreword to Harry Gruyaert's photography book Edges, sculptor Richard Nonas sums up the work of his good friend.

"Harry Gruyaert ignores the grammar of center and edge, finds the blurred boundaries of overlapping life, the places where one thing has begun to be another thing," Nonas writes. "He photographs processes, not results. He photographs moments caught in transition."

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