Ellipsis: Dual Vision - Couverture rigide

Posen, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 099038084X ISBN 13 : 9780990380849

Editeur : Glitterati Inc, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

• Stephen Posen is well-known as a painter, as well as a photographer, with work in the collections of The Guggenheim Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, among others
• The work is very distinctive and beautiful, in addition to having a subliminal connection that the reader can immediately understand
• This is Posen's first published book of photography and eagerly awaited by his fan base with huge potential for promotion because of the fame of his son, Zac Posen
• Stephen Posen will be promoting the book in tandem with Fashion Week during spring 2015 and is exploring exhibition venues now that will soon be confirmed

New York artist Stephen Posen photographs the everyday world with a painter's eye, capturing compositions that often blur the lines between realism and abstraction. The 174 images compiled in his first book of photographs, Ellipsis: Dual Visions, represent a broad range of locations and subjects - ranging from Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia to a flea market in rural Pennsylvania, a vending machine of rubber balls to a contorted Barbie doll, all culled from decades of photographs in Posen's archives.

The artist has arranged these images, taken in very diverse places and disparate times, in pairs, based on form, content, or some obscure magnetism, leaving the viewer to conjure a bridge between the two. The elliptical space between the images, like the series of dots that represents an omitted piece of text, becomes a third entity, pregnant with possibility. As art editor Scott Indrisek writes in the introduction to the book, "2 distinct photographs are made into strange bedfellows, and that's the joy: Finding connections where many see only a random chaos of image."

The photographs collected here are playful, poetic, and endlessly compelling. They demonstrate the mastery and intuition of Posen's eye, both as a photographer and an editor, teasing elusive connections from the visual glut of the modern world.

Revue de presse :

The result is Ellipsis, which consists of 174 paired, unedited images, culled from an archive of several thousand. Individually, the photos might seem ordinary; juxtaposed, they play with perception and negative space, transcending the dailiness of their subjects and approaching the realm of metaphor and optical illusion. --Susan Kirschbaum "T Magazine, March 30, 2015 "

'Strands of blonde hair over the shoulder of a cherry red sweater, the zig-zag of an airplane pillow wedged between woman and window: this is all we see of the passenger seated in the row ahead. Yet the photographer of this image, New York artist Stephen Posen, thickens the plot by pairing it with something completely different in his new book. This airplane shot was taken somewhere over the Atlantic in 2013 and he couples it with one he took a year earlier and thousands of miles away at a mosque in southern Turkey, where a chain-link curtain disappears behind a golden door. Juxtapositions such as these, at turns enchanting, amusing, enigmatic, and sobering, fill the pages of 'Ellipsis: Dual Vision,' Posen's first monograph.' --Stephanie Murg, Wallpaper

'Ellipsis: Dual Vision is the first monograph of Stephen Posen, with a preface by Alexandra Posen, premise Colin Cheney, introducing Scott Indrisek and edited by Zac Posen. The peculiarity of this photographer resides in the ability to capture unique shots in balance between realism and abstraction. He collected 174 photographs from his archive, representing a variety of locations and subjects, and he paged them in pairs associating them by color, shape, content, or some other mysterious connection. The viewer will have to understand the connections between seemingly unrelated images that together could have potentially infinite meanings.' --Man on Town

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Glitterati Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 099038084X
• ISBN 13: 9780990380849
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216