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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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
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The House Project (signed - last copy)
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Euro 165 -
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by Roger Ballen
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Resurrected (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 44 -
Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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Roger Ballen
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Euro 75 -
No Joke
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Euro 58 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
by Roger Ballen
Euro 77 -
Roger the Rat
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Outland
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Infinito (signed)
by David Jiménez
sold out -
Caffè d'Italia
by Christina & Toni Anzenberger-Fink
Euro 34.90 -
The Americans
by Robert Frank
sold out -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
BRUTAL (signed - last copy)
by Michal Luczak
Euro 350 -
Asphalt (signed - last copies)
by Andreas Trogisch
sold out
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-
The Whiteness of the Whale
by Paul Graham
Euro 71.50 -
Invisible City
by Ken Schles
Euro 65 -
New York September 11 (signed by 9 magnum photographers)
by Magnum Photographers
sold out -
Hillbilly Heroin, Honey
by Hannah Modigh
sold out -
Presistence - World Press Photo
by Joop Swart Masterclass 2010
sold out -
Diane Arbus
by Diane Arbus
sold out
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Pecorino in Rimini (signed)
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 95 -
Pecorino - Ein Hund für jeden Tag (last copy)
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Hunter Grill (signed)
by Alexandre Christiaens
sold out -
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Trees (signed)
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by Mariette Pathy Allen
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by Milan Bureš
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by Stefan Enders
Euro 49 -
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