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9783868286373: Insomnia
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3868286373 ISBN 13 : 9783868286373
Editeur : Kehrer Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

The work of still photographer Tami Amit generates various shifts from what we know as staged photography. The scale of her work calls to mind cinematic and fashion productions, from which she extracts a discreet dimension which charges the images with qualities of horror; discreet due to the fact that this staged photography is not conveyed by the images themselves. Ostensibly, this is a replication of the Hollywood approach to the status of the camera, where the actors perform their roles as if there were no camera facing them. Unlike the Hollywood camera, however, the transparent presence in Amit's case enables her camera to function as hidden, as if it were shooting out of a hiding-place. Moreover, Amit's photography displays an affinity with moments of postconceptual art, such as the work of Cindy Sherman. In her Untitled Film Stills series Sherman concocted scenes from nonexistent movies, depicting herself as the heroine. In light of this affinity, Amit's work – mainly photographs of women, usually one woman per frame in a scene from a film never made – may be regarded as the result of self-representation, especially female self-representation understood as fiction, with its entire range of performative aspects

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À propos de l'auteur

Tami Amit (born in Tel Aviv 1972) is an Israeli art photographer.
She has a BFA from Parsons school of design, Paris and New York. Amit has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the The Petach Tikva Museum of Art and at Art Basel Miami.

Alexandre Castant (born 1965 in Montpellier, France) is an essayist, art critic and lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Bourges (France), where he teaches contemporary art history and aesthetics. Castant has written extensively in the fields of art, literature and sound creation. In 2014, his collection of essays, Écrans de neige: photographies, textes, images (Snow Screens: Photographs, Texts, Images), was published by Éditions Filigranes.

Ory Dessau is an art curator and critic, working and living in Tel Aviv, Israel. One of his renowned exhibition works, "Guess who died", explored the image and physiognomy of Palestinian late president Yasser Arafat.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The work of still photographer Tami Amit generates various shifts from what we know as staged photography. The scale of her work calls to mind cinematic and fashion productions, from which she extracts a discreet dimension which charges the images with qualities of horror; discreet due to the fact that this staged photography is not conveyed by the images themselves. Ostensibly, this is a replication of the Hollywood approach to the status of the camera, where the actors perform their roles as if there were no camera facing them. Unlike the Hollywood camera, however, the transparent presence in Amit's case enables her camera to function as hidden, as if it were shooting out of a hiding-place. Moreover, Amit's photography displays an affinity with moments of postconceptual art, such as the work of Cindy Sherman. In her Untitled Film Stills series Sherman concocted scenes from nonexistent movies, depicting herself as the heroine. In light of this affinity, Amit's work – mainly photographs of women, usually one woman per frame in a scene from a film never made – may be regarded as the result of self-representation, especially female self-representation understood as fiction, with its entire range of performative aspects

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Éditeur
Kehrer Verlag
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3868286373
ISBN 13 
9783868286373
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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