The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Colin Rhodes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
192 pages
Pictures: 98 (b/w)
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780500544648
Price: 35 €
Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 17 x 24 cm
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography.
The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’, with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these ‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers.
Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
Roger Ballen is the recipient of numerous awards, including ‘Photographer of the Year’ at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002 and ‘Photography Book of the Year’ for Outland at Photo España in 2001. Thames & Hudson published his monograph Asylum of the Birds in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written and lectured widely contemporary art. He is the author of the influential Outsider Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Colin Rhodes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
192 pages
Pictures: 98 (b/w)
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780500544648
Price: 35 €
Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 17 x 24 cm
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography.
The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’, with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these ‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers.
Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
Roger Ballen is the recipient of numerous awards, including ‘Photographer of the Year’ at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002 and ‘Photography Book of the Year’ for Outland at Photo España in 2001. Thames & Hudson published his monograph Asylum of the Birds in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written and lectured widely contemporary art. He is the author of the influential Outsider Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Colin Rhodes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
192 pages
Pictures: 98 (b/w)
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780500544648
Price: 35 €
Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 17 x 24 cm
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography.
The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’, with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these ‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers.
Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
Roger Ballen is the recipient of numerous awards, including ‘Photographer of the Year’ at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002 and ‘Photography Book of the Year’ for Outland at Photo España in 2001. Thames & Hudson published his monograph Asylum of the Birds in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written and lectured widely contemporary art. He is the author of the influential Outsider Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
The House Project (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 88 -
Elemental (signed)
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Resurrected (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 44 -
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by Roger Ballen
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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Roger Ballen
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No Joke
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CUBIC FEET/SEC. (signed)
by Andrew Phelps
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Inside Life (book + print)
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sold out -
Blue Shots
by Erik Lindahl
sold out -
The Iconic Photographs Limited Edition (book + print)
by Steve McCurry
sold out -
Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
Hong Kong Informal Seating Arrangements (signed)
by Michael Wolf
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
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Gesichter der Fotografie. Begegnungen mit 50 Meisterfotografen...
by Tina Ruisinger
sold out -
Work (signed)
by Brian Griffin
Euro 165 -
Ice Chaosmos
by Jungho Jung
sold out -
Lorsque le vent viendra
by Gilbert Garcin
sold out -
By lamplight
by Johan Sundgren
Euro 28 -
Zine Collection N°4: Burma (signed + print)
by Max Pam
sold out
more books tagged »conceptual« | >> see all
-
On the Beach
by Hiroshi Sugimoto
sold out -
Dawid: This Is A Photograph
by Dawid
Euro 59 -
An Invented World
by Paolo Ventura
Euro 25 -
The Modern Spirit is Vivisective (signed review copy)
by Francesca Catastini
Euro 34 17.00 -
It Could Have Been Me
by Sonia Lenzi
Euro 80 -
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
by various photographers
Euro 39
more books tagged »abstract« | >> see all
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Humanity
by Kazuto Ishikawa
Euro 54 -
Color Photographs (signed - last copy)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out -
Photography 227 Months
by Cecilia Edefalk
Euro 44 -
A
by Alejandro Marote
Euro 50 -
Skin Memories
by Thomas Mailaender
Euro 77 -
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by Geraldo de Barros
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