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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Euro 165 -
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Euro 44 -
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by Roger Ballen
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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No Joke
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TOKYO 1961 (Booklet Edition - signed - last copy)
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Euro 250 -
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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 34.80 -
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
-
Imperial Courts (signed - last copy)
by Dana Lixenberg
sold out -
On Set
by Ernst Haas
Euro 59.70 41.79 -
Poultry Suite
by Jean Pagliuso
sold out -
TOKYO 1961 (Booklet Edition - signed - last copy)
by William Klein
Euro 250 -
Haboob (signed)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 42 33.60 -
TOKYO 1961 (signed)
by William Klein
sold out
more books tagged »animals« | >> see all
-
Skeletons in the Closet (special edition, signed + framed prin...
by Klaus Pichler
sold out -
Pecorino und die Kunst des Pilgerns (last copies)
by Toni Anzenberger & Claudio Honsal
sold out -
Zine Collection N°15: Animal trouvé (signed+print - last copy)
by Joan Fontcuberta
Euro 75 60.00 -
Misao The Big Mama And Fukumaru The Cat
by Miyoko Ihara
sold out -
One Picture Book 91: Lion King (signed + print)
by Katy Grannan
Euro 45 31.50 -
Pecorino in Munich (signed)
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 95
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Domestic Landscapes (signed + prints)
by Valentino Barachini
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Man Jayen
by Cristina de Middel
Euro 40 20.00 -
Pakistan (signed - last copy)
by Christine de Grancy
Euro 50 -
Printed Reflections (signed)
by Kateryna Snizhko
Euro 38.50 -
Big Champ (signed)
by Thomas Hoepker
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-
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by Leon Borensztein
Euro 89 -
Vergiszmeinnicht (signed - last copy)
by Thekla Ehling
Euro 165 -
Casita de Turrón
by Roberto M. Tondopó
Euro 28 -
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BRUTAL (signed - last copy)
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Euro 350 -
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by Max Pam
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