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)
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sold out -
The House Project (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
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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
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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Roger Ballen(signed)
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No Joke
by Asger Carlsen and Roger Ballen
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Euro 53 -
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Euro 98 -
Once a Year
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she dances on Jackson
by Vanessa Winship
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Ashes and Snow book n° 8
by Gregory Colbert
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Euro 44 -
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by Sanja Iveković
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by Alain Laboile
Euro 33 -
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by Homer Sykes
sold out -
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by Rene Groebli
Euro 125 -
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by Remigijus Treigys
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by Daniel Naude
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by Gregory Colbert
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by Clare Strand
Euro 38.50 -
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by Robin Schwartz
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by Andreas Weinand
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by Roe Ethridge
Euro 44
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by Norman Mauskopf
Euro 80 -
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by Ed Templeton
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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(signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 75 -
No Joke
by Asger Carlsen and Roger Ballen
Euro 58 -
Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 77 -
Roger the Rat (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 95 -
Outland (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 53 -
drawing meets photography (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 44 -
drawing meets photography (book + print)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 330
more books tagged »portrait« | >> see all
-
Almost (signed - last copy)
by Guy Archard
Euro 95 -
OCEAN
by Martin Bogren
sold out -
Menschenbilder (signed)
by Michael Horowitz
Euro 98 -
Once a Year
by Axel Hoedt
sold out -
she dances on Jackson
by Vanessa Winship
sold out -
Ashes and Snow book n° 8
by Gregory Colbert
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Mi Ojo (last copy)
by Graciela Iturbide
Euro 44 -
tragedy of a venus 1975
by Sanja Iveković
Euro 25 -
Summer of the Fawn
by Alain Laboile
Euro 33 -
The Battle of Lewisham 1977
by Homer Sykes
sold out -
Early Work (signed last copy)
by Rene Groebli
Euro 125 -
Fotografijos / Photographs 1987-2012
by Remigijus Treigys
sold out
more books tagged »animals« | >> see all
-
Animal Farm (signed)
by Daniel Naude
Euro 95 -
Ashes and Snow: feather to fire
by Gregory Colbert
sold out -
Girl Plays with Snake
by Clare Strand
Euro 38.50 -
Amelia und die Tiere
by Robin Schwartz
sold out -
The Good Earth (signed)
by Andreas Weinand
sold out -
Neighbors (last copies)
by Roe Ethridge
Euro 44
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-
Dark Horses
by Norman Mauskopf
Euro 80 -
Adventures in the Nearby Far Away
by Ed Templeton
sold out -
New York September 11 (signed by 9 magnum photographers)
by Magnum Photographers
sold out -
Pursuit (last copy)
by Richard Pak
Euro 39.90 -
This Place
by various photographers
sold out -
The History of Photography in Pen & Ink
by Charles Woodard
sold out
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