Jan avgikos contributor (5 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: As New. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Parkett, Zurich, 2003. FINE- softcover in illustrated/pictorial wraps, as issued. Light shelf rubbing, else as new. Text in English and German. First Softcover Edition, Presumed First Printing.

12 x 10.25 inches. 120 pages. Original white boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. "Working with ordinary people who answered ads in local papers, posing them in their nondescript homes or unexceptional landscapes and using relatively simple equipment, Katy Grannan alchemizes these factors into extraordinary photographs. Disarming for their directness and for the provocative but casual nudity on display, her pictures capture the spirit of her subjects in the manner of Diane Arbus, but they also draw upon the artificial, posed tableaux of Gregory Crewdson and, indeed, art history. The posture of the tattooed and tanned (and nude) figure in Mike, a 2003 portrait which appeared in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, resembles nothing so much as the awkward repose of the desert nomad in Henri Rousseau's Sleeping Gypsy. In this first monograph, over half of the photographs are previously unpublished, providing a fresh depth to our understanding of this already widely known and accomplished young artist. Sitting on a dirt road in a knit bikini, standing defiantly in a corner of a cheaply paneled living room, leaning languidly against a chain-link fence, Grannan's photographs convey the dark side that we all have as well as the need to be recognized as unique individuals" (the publisher). A near-fine copy, with some very light rubbing to jacket.…

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Aperture, New York, 2005. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.