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.
> 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 -
Shadow Chamber (signed)
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The House Project (signed - last copy)
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Euro 165 -
Elemental (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Resurrected (signed)
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Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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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
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Roger the Rat
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Euro 54 -
Lines & Tapes
by Hervé Tullet
Euro 18 -
Sobras
by Geraldo de Barros
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Color Photographs (signed - last copy)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out
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-
A Greek Portfolio
by Constantine Manos
sold out -
Sunless
by Tiane Doan na Champassak
sold out -
In the Meantime: Europe
by Hana Jakrlova
Euro 39 -
Transmission (signed - last copy)
by Lucy Helton
sold out -
Tall-Maja
by Agneta Ekman
sold out -
Bamboo
by Choi Byung-Kwan
sold out
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-
Birds
by Yohei Kichiraku
Euro 49 -
On the Beach
by Hiroshi Sugimoto
sold out -
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
by various photographers
Euro 39 -
Homo Viksraitis (signed)
by Rimaldas Viksraitis
Euro 49 34.30 -
Faire de son mieux
by Gilbert Garcin
sold out -
The Modern Spirit is Vivisective (signed) - used copy
by Francesca Catastini
Euro 34 20.40
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by Richard Ross
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by Katy Grannan
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by Bruce Davidson
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