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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Euro 108 -
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by Roger Ballen
sold out -
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by Roger Ballen
Euro 44 -
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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
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Euro 58 34.80 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
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Euro 77 -
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by Roger Ballen
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sold out -
Zine Collection N°10: Circle (signed+print - last two copies)
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Euro 44 -
The Home Front
by Kenneth Graves
Euro 33 -
Away from home (signed - review copy)
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Euro 75 -
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by Jaka Babnik
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by Ivan Blazhev
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by Rob McDonald
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Euro 34.90 -
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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 34.80 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
by Roger Ballen
Euro 77 -
Roger the Rat
by Roger Ballen
Euro 30.80
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Alternative Moons
by Robert Pufleb & Nadine Schlieper
sold out -
Zine Collection N°10: Circle (signed+print - last two copies)
by Jung S Kim
Euro 44 -
The Home Front
by Kenneth Graves
Euro 33 -
Away from home (signed - review copy)
by Kursat Bayhan
Euro 75 -
All about Golf (photobook dummy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 63.80 38.28 -
MASAHISA FUKASE
by Masahisa Fukase
sold out
more books tagged »animals« | >> see all
-
Pecorino und die Kunst des Pilgerns (last copies)
by Toni Anzenberger & Claudio Honsal
Euro 17.90 -
Pecorino Calendar 2013
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 49 -
Pecorino in Nuremberg (signed)
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 95 -
Paloma al aire (first edition - last copy)
by Ricardo Cases
Euro 125 -
We are dogs!
by Jaka Babnik
sold out -
Pecorino in Paris (signed)
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 95
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-
The Faces of the Invisible City (review copy)
by Ivan Blazhev
Euro 25 12.50 -
Altered States (signed)
by Reiner Riedler
Euro 29.50 -
The Other Shore
by Nikita Pirogov
Euro 15 -
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
Portrait Photographs (English)
by Bernhard Fuchs
sold out -
Frontal
by Stefan Enders
Euro 49
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Birdhouses (book+print)
by Rob McDonald
sold out -
American Color (signed)
by Constantine Manos
sold out -
Archipelago (last copy)
by Matthew Porter
Euro 75 -
drawn by the light
by Roland Pleterski / OstLIcht Collection
Euro 34.90 -
Wild Pigeon
by Carolyn Drake
sold out -
Oceanomania (last copy)
by Mark Dion
sold out
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