The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Colin Rhodes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
192 pages
Pictures: 98 (b/w)
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780500544648
Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 17 x 24 cm
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography.
The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’, with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these ‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers.
Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
Roger Ballen is the recipient of numerous awards, including ‘Photographer of the Year’ at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002 and ‘Photography Book of the Year’ for Outland at Photo España in 2001. Thames & Hudson published his monograph Asylum of the Birds in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written and lectured widely contemporary art. He is the author of the influential Outsider Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Colin Rhodes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
192 pages
Pictures: 98 (b/w)
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780500544648
Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 17 x 24 cm
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography.
The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’, with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these ‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers.
Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
Roger Ballen is the recipient of numerous awards, including ‘Photographer of the Year’ at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002 and ‘Photography Book of the Year’ for Outland at Photo España in 2001. Thames & Hudson published his monograph Asylum of the Birds in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written and lectured widely contemporary art. He is the author of the influential Outsider Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.
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The Theatre of Apparitions (signed)
by Roger Ballen
Photographs: Roger Ballen
Text: Colin Rhodes
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
192 pages
Pictures: 98 (b/w)
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780500544648
Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 17 x 24 cm
Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography.
The Theatre of Apparitions is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or ‘acts’, with each one introduced by a text written by the photographer, these ‘Ballenesque’ images take readers on a journey deep into their subconscious.
Initially inspired by blacked-out windows seen in an abandoned women’s prison, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows – these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse and even elate viewers.
Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, this work transcends all traditional concepts of photography.
Roger Ballen is the recipient of numerous awards, including ‘Photographer of the Year’ at Rencontres d’Arles in 2002 and ‘Photography Book of the Year’ for Outland at Photo España in 2001. Thames & Hudson published his monograph Asylum of the Birds in 2014. Colin Rhodes has written and lectured widely contemporary art. He is the author of the influential Outsider Art, also published by Thames & Hudson.
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
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Elemental (signed)
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No Joke
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Roger the Rat
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The Modern Spirit is Vivisective (signed review copy)
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Euro 34 23.80 -
Tyre Choice (signed, last copy)
by Gerry Johansson
Euro 58 -
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
by various photographers
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Works (signed - last copy)
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The Modern Spirit is Vivisective
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Photography 227 Months
by Cecilia Edefalk
Euro 44 -
A
by Alejandro Marote
Euro 50 -
Color Photographs (signed - last copy)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out -
Humanity
by Kazuto Ishikawa
Euro 54 -
Lines & Tapes
by Hervé Tullet
Euro 18 -
Color Photographs
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out
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Two Rivers (last copy)
by Carolyn Drake
sold out -
Wayward Cognitions
by Ed Templeton
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Night Walk
by Ken Schles
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On a Wet Bough (signed)
by Keliy Anderson-Staley
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Libyan Sugar (last copies)
by Michael Christopher Brown
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Second Nature (signed)
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