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)
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sold out -
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by Roger Ballen
sold out -
The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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No Joke
by Asger Carlsen and Roger Ballen
Euro 58 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
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Roger the Rat
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Outland
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sold out -
Native Ground - one (signed)
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Euro 65 -
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Euro 95 -
Gift
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sold out -
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Euro 56 -
After Her
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by Jacques Henri Lartigue
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by Mariette Pathy Allen
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by Christine de Grancy
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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
sold out -
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
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-
Birdhouses (book+print)
by Rob McDonald
sold out -
Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
Le Luxe
by Roe Ethridge
Euro 95 -
Gift
by Rinko Kawauchi,Terri Weifenbach
sold out -
east
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 56 -
After Her
by Todd Hido, Amanda Schiff
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Push The Sky Away
by Piotr Zbierski
Euro 44 -
Fabrik
by Jack Tuggener
Euro 66.90 -
Paris 88/89 (last copy)
by Daido Moriyama
Euro 48 -
D'Après Nature
by Jean Gaumy
sold out -
ANATOPÉES (signed)
by Arnaud Lesage
sold out -
Jacques Henri Lartigue et les autos
by Jacques Henri Lartigue
sold out
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32 -
Tausend und eine Spur
by Christine de Grancy
Euro 40 -
Ashes and Snow book n° 8
by Gregory Colbert
sold out -
Portraits
by Rineke Dijkstra
sold out -
The Other Shore
by Nikita Pirogov
Euro 15 -
Dusk
by Axel Hoedt
sold out
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-
Pecorino in Paris (signed)
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 95 -
Cirkus - Eclisse #3
by Joze Suhadolnik
sold out -
Misao The Big Mama And Fukumaru The Cat
by Miyoko Ihara
sold out -
Image Tsunami (signed)
by Erik Kessels
Euro 29 -
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Euro 88 -
Amelia und die Tiere
by Robin Schwartz
sold out
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