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
Price: 35 €
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.
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
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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
Price: 35 €
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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by Roger Ballen
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by Roger Ballen
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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
Price: 35 €
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.
> See also Roger Ballen's fine art prints
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
The House Project (signed)
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Euro 88 -
Elemental (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Resurrected (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
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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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more books tagged »American« | >> see all
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TOKYO 1961 (Booklet Edition - signed - last copy)
by William Klein
Euro 165 -
Them (last two copies)
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
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One Picture Book 76: Portraits ii (signed + print)
by Leon Borensztein
Euro 89 -
Between the Shell
by Paul Salveson
Euro 50 40.00 -
Witty Kiwi Mag: Issue 2
by various photographers
sold out -
west (signed)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 99
more books tagged »conceptual« | >> see all
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Eclipse
by Antoine d'Agata
Euro 44 -
Heimatkunde (signed)
by Nicolo Degiorgis
Euro 39 -
New Horizons (signed)
by Bruno Van Den Elshout
Euro 250 -
The Modern Spirit is Vivisective (book + print)
by Francesca Catastini
Euro 100 -
The Modern Spirit is Vivisective (signed review copy)
by Francesca Catastini
Euro 34 17.00 -
Birds
by Yohei Kichiraku
Euro 49
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Spirit is a Bone
by Oliver Chanarin, Adam Broomberg
Euro 33 -
Go There (signed)
by Gen Sakuma
Euro 60 -
ohio
by Alec Soth
sold out -
The Home Front
by Kenneth Graves
Euro 33 -
Street Level
by Paul Trevor
Euro 9.50 -
Austrian Documentary Photography
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75
more books tagged »abstract« | >> see all
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Color Photographs (signed - last copy)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out -
Skin Memories
by Thomas Mailaender
Euro 77 -
Humanity
by Kazuto Ishikawa
Euro 54 -
Color Photographs
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out -
A
by Alejandro Marote
Euro 50 -
Lines & Tapes
by Hervé Tullet
Euro 18
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