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Publiée conjointement par Delmonico Books et la fondation Jay DeFeo, cette monographie sur l'artiste Jay DeFeo, associée à la Beat Generation, qui a travaillé de 1950 à la fin des années 90 à San Francisco. Cet ouvrage reprend plus de 150 Suvres photographiques, dont plusieurs inédites, et pour la plupart reproduites à taille réelle. Après l'achèvement de son chef-d'Suvre monumental The Rose en 1966, DeFeo a quitté San Francisco pour une petite maison dans le comté de Marin, en Californie. Là, elle s'est concentrée sur la photographie. Pour une grande partie des années 1970, elle a utilisé l'objectif comme un outil pour regarder et penser, créer des images en noir et blanc tantôt fantastiques, tantôt documentaires de manière expérimentale, qui, dans son atelier, côtoient les peintures. Ses planches contact, dont certaines sont reproduites ici, présentent souvent plusieurs vues d'un même objet, révélant la façon dont Jay DeFeo utilisé l'appareil photo comme un outil de travail et d'esquisses. En 1972 elle écrit : « Mon intérêt pour la photographie a toujours été parallèle à mon expression de peintre. »

A revelatory trove of innovative photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies-many never before published-most reproduced at the size DeFeo printed them.

This monograph on the legendary and influential artist Jay DeFeo features over 150 photographic works-many never before published-most reproduced at the size the artist printed them. After the completion of her monumental masterpiece The Rose in 1966, DeFeo moved from the heart of artistic activity in San Francisco to a small house in Marin County, California. There she embarked on a focused and rigorous exploration with the camera. For much of the 1970s, she used the camera as a tool to look and think with, creating a wide range of black-and-white photographs she processed in her darkroom. The artist used experimental photographic techniques to produce extraordinary artworks, alongside documentary images of her studio and paintings in process. Her contact sheets, some of which are reproduced here, are often filled with multiple views of one object, revealing the way DeFeo looked and sketched with the lens. In 1972 she wrote: "My interest in photography has always paralleled my expression as a painter."

Essays by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller and Catherine Wagner survey the rich materiality, sculptural layering and illusionistic devices of DeFeo's playful and enigmatic photographic works, illuminating her astonishing range and daring experimentation with the medium.
Jay DeFeo (1929-89) was a Bay Area artist who created an original and provocative body of work, including the iconic painting The Rose (1958-66). In the 1970s and 1980s, DeFeo continued her visionary work in a range of mediums, including works on paper, photography, collage and photocopies. Among many other exhibitions, a retrospective of her work was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2012.