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
More books by Roger Ballen
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
The House Project (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
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
sold out -
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 -
Outland
by Roger Ballen
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One Picture Book 86 : All Eyes on Me (signed + print)
by Doug Rickard
Euro 99 -
Sacrifice Your Body
by Roe Ethridge
Euro 49.50 -
Dark Horses
by Norman Mauskopf
Euro 80 -
Truths & Fictions (signed)
by Pedro Meyer
Euro 165 -
American Chaos
by Paolo Woods
sold out -
At Home
by Bruce Wrighton
sold out
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Yemen Rihla (book + print)
by Fabio Tasca
Euro 77 -
The Last Cosmology
by Kikuji Kawada
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How to be a Photographer in four lessons
by Thomas Vanden Driessche
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Euro 25 -
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by Mike England
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Tokyo (signed - last copy)
by Gerry Johansson
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by Klaus Pichler
sold out -
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by Toni Anzenberger
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by Katy Grannan
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by Cristina de Middel
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by Robin Schwartz
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by Horst A. Friedrichs
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by Dirk Alvermann
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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 - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
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
sold out -
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 -
Outland
by Roger Ballen
Euro 53
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 86 : All Eyes on Me (signed + print)
by Doug Rickard
Euro 99 -
Sacrifice Your Body
by Roe Ethridge
Euro 49.50 -
Dark Horses
by Norman Mauskopf
Euro 80 -
Truths & Fictions (signed)
by Pedro Meyer
Euro 165 -
American Chaos
by Paolo Woods
sold out -
At Home
by Bruce Wrighton
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Yemen Rihla (book + print)
by Fabio Tasca
Euro 77 -
The Last Cosmology
by Kikuji Kawada
sold out -
How to be a Photographer in four lessons
by Thomas Vanden Driessche
sold out -
KRETA 2
by Kreta 2 Kollektiv
Euro 25 -
London Charivari 1980 - 1985
by Mike England
sold out -
Tokyo (signed - last copy)
by Gerry Johansson
sold out
more books tagged »animals« | >> see all
-
Skeletons in the Closet (special edition, signed + print)
by Klaus Pichler
sold out -
Pecorino Calendar 2012
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 79 -
One Picture Book 91: Lion King (signed + print)
by Katy Grannan
Euro 45 -
THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID (review copy)
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66 33.00 -
Pecorino in Styria
by Toni Anzenberger
sold out -
Amelia und die Tiere
by Robin Schwartz
sold out
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
Cycle Style (signed)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 29 17.40 -
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
Real Fake Art
by Michael Wolf
sold out -
Supertourist (signed + print)
by Max Pam
sold out -
Sevastopol (signed)
by Milan Bureš
Euro 22
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