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
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 108 -
The House Project (signed - last copy)
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Euro 165 -
Elemental (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
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
by Roger Ballen
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No Joke
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Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
by Roger Ballen
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Roger the Rat
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Euro 49 -
Up and Down Peachtree Photographs of Atlanta (signed - last copy)
by Martin Parr
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OCEAN
by Martin Bogren
sold out -
Donata: Islands of Silence
by Donata Wenders
Euro 45 -
The Other Shore
by Nikita Pirogov
Euro 15 -
Dona Maria and her Dreams (last two copies)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 75
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
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Nothing (signed)
by John Gossage
Euro 88 -
Two Rivers (last copy)
by Carolyn Drake
sold out -
American Color 2
by Constantine Manos
sold out -
SPBH BOOK CLUB VOL IV (last copy)
by Mariah Robertson
Euro 69.90 -
A Sense of Common Ground
by Fazal Sheikh
Euro 69 -
One Picture Book 89: Corridors (signed + print)
by Steve Kahn
Euro 45
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Boso Fudoki (signed)
by Issei Suda
Euro 52 -
Shadows of Silence (signed - original Greek edition - last copy)
by John Demos
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The Battle of Lewisham 1977
by Homer Sykes
sold out -
Grimaces of the Weary Villages (signed)
by Rimaldas Viksraitis
sold out -
Museum Bhavan (last copy)
by Dayanita Singh
sold out -
Japan Sea
by Shunji Dodo
sold out
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by Cristina de Middel
Euro 66 33.00 -
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by Jaka Babnik
sold out -
Domesticated (signed)
by Amy Stein
Euro 50 -
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Euro 44 -
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