Shadow Chamber (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Publisher: Phaidon Press
128 pages
Pictures: 71 black and white photographs
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780714844664
Comments: Hardback, English, 30 x 28 cm, designed by Lucy Newell, first published 2005, reprinted 2009, condition: used, good.
World-renowned and award-winning photographer Roger Ballen explores in Shadow Chamber the underbelly or the “shadow chamber” of existence. He takes major leaps forward into a metaphoric dimension with multiple conscious and subconscious meaning. He does this in an, as yet unseen, and entirely unique way. With Shadow Chamber he creates a way of seeing that makes an important and historic contribution to art photography.
His photographs are striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms that occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture.
The results are completely abstract and not defined by the origins or specific location of the characters he photographs. Ballen focuses on the interactions between the people, animals and objects that inhabit mysterious rooms – the shadow chamber. The rooms are unsettling and strange: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. Figures hide away in boxes, crouch behind overstuffed sofas and squat with their shirts pulled over their heads.
The humans and animals in Ballen’s photographs appear isolated, estranged and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are surreal and intriguing, and powerful disturbing psychological studies.
As Robert A Sobieszek writes in his introduction to Shadow Chamber: “To discern fact from fiction in this work may be simply impossible; to tell acting from real life may also be; to bother with such discernment may not be only futile but missing the point.”
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Publisher: Phaidon Press
128 pages
Pictures: 71 black and white photographs
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780714844664
Comments: Hardback, English, 30 x 28 cm, designed by Lucy Newell, first published 2005, reprinted 2009, condition: used, good.
World-renowned and award-winning photographer Roger Ballen explores in Shadow Chamber the underbelly or the “shadow chamber” of existence. He takes major leaps forward into a metaphoric dimension with multiple conscious and subconscious meaning. He does this in an, as yet unseen, and entirely unique way. With Shadow Chamber he creates a way of seeing that makes an important and historic contribution to art photography.
His photographs are striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms that occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture.
The results are completely abstract and not defined by the origins or specific location of the characters he photographs. Ballen focuses on the interactions between the people, animals and objects that inhabit mysterious rooms – the shadow chamber. The rooms are unsettling and strange: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. Figures hide away in boxes, crouch behind overstuffed sofas and squat with their shirts pulled over their heads.
The humans and animals in Ballen’s photographs appear isolated, estranged and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are surreal and intriguing, and powerful disturbing psychological studies.
As Robert A Sobieszek writes in his introduction to Shadow Chamber: “To discern fact from fiction in this work may be simply impossible; to tell acting from real life may also be; to bother with such discernment may not be only futile but missing the point.”
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
The House Project (signed)
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Euro 88 -
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sold out -
Resurrected (signed)
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Euro 44 -
Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 35 -
Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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Roger Ballen
by Roger Ballen
Euro 75 -
No Joke
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Euro 58 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
by Roger Ballen
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Roger the Rat
by Roger Ballen
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Haboob (signed)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 42 -
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by John Gossage
Euro 88 -
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by Leon Borensztein
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First World War Now (signed)
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by Toni Anzenberger & Claudio Honsal
Euro 17.90 -
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by Robert Zhao Renhui
Euro 15 -
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Euro 29 -
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by Annet van der Voort
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by Thekla Ehling
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Publisher: Phaidon Press
128 pages
Pictures: 71 black and white photographs
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780714844664
Comments: Hardback, English, 30 x 28 cm, designed by Lucy Newell, first published 2005, reprinted 2009, condition: used, good.
World-renowned and award-winning photographer Roger Ballen explores in Shadow Chamber the underbelly or the “shadow chamber” of existence. He takes major leaps forward into a metaphoric dimension with multiple conscious and subconscious meaning. He does this in an, as yet unseen, and entirely unique way. With Shadow Chamber he creates a way of seeing that makes an important and historic contribution to art photography.
His photographs are striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms that occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture.
The results are completely abstract and not defined by the origins or specific location of the characters he photographs. Ballen focuses on the interactions between the people, animals and objects that inhabit mysterious rooms – the shadow chamber. The rooms are unsettling and strange: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. Figures hide away in boxes, crouch behind overstuffed sofas and squat with their shirts pulled over their heads.
The humans and animals in Ballen’s photographs appear isolated, estranged and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are surreal and intriguing, and powerful disturbing psychological studies.
As Robert A Sobieszek writes in his introduction to Shadow Chamber: “To discern fact from fiction in this work may be simply impossible; to tell acting from real life may also be; to bother with such discernment may not be only futile but missing the point.”
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
More books by Roger Ballen
-
One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
The House Project (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 88 -
Elemental (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Resurrected (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 44 -
Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 35 -
Asylum of the Birds (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Roger Ballen
by Roger Ballen
Euro 75 -
No Joke
by Asger Carlsen and Roger Ballen
Euro 58 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
by Roger Ballen
Euro 77 -
Roger the Rat
by Roger Ballen
Euro 30.80
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
Haboob (signed)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 42 -
Nothing (signed)
by John Gossage
Euro 88 -
One Picture Book 76: Portraits ii (signed + print)
by Leon Borensztein
Euro 89 -
First World War Now (signed)
by Magnum Photographers
Euro 65 -
Broken Dream
by Antonin Kratochvil
sold out
more books tagged »animals« | >> see all
-
Pecorino und die Kunst des Pilgerns
by Toni Anzenberger & Claudio Honsal
Euro 17.90 -
A Bird in the Hand / Why look at birds? (signed)
by Robert Zhao Renhui
Euro 15 -
JAGA (signed)
by Simon Lehner
Euro 29 -
The Good Earth (signed)
by Andreas Weinand
sold out -
Pecorino in Munich (signed)
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 99 -
Horse
by Heleen Peeters
Euro 49
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
Zwei Welten
by Annet van der Voort
Euro 29.90 -
Vergiszmeinnicht (signed)
by Thekla Ehling
Euro 85 -
Altered States (signed)
by Reiner Riedler
Euro 29.50 -
Leise Wandlungen
by Hans W. Mende
Euro 36 -
My Valentines (signed)
by Lucy Hilmer
Euro 59 -
Dona Maria and her Dreams
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 75
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf
by Leni Riefenstahl
Euro 2200 -
Rest 3000~ Stay 5000~
by Tokyo Rumando
sold out -
Lupimaris (with net cover, signed)
by Christian Stemper
Euro 75 -
On the Road Again 1969 & 1971
by Homer Sykes
Euro 18 -
Ramadan in Yemen (signed)
by Max Pam
sold out -
A
by Alejandro Marote
Euro 50
A collector's choice by josefchladek.com