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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Outland
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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)
by Roger Ballen
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Shadow Chamber (signed)
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Euro 165 -
Elemental (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Resurrected (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Fotografien 1969—2009 (signed)
by Roger Ballen
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Asylum of the Birds (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Roger Ballen
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No Joke
by Asger Carlsen and Roger Ballen
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Ballenesque – Roger Ballen: a retrospective
by Roger Ballen
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Roger the Rat
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Outland
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Gift
by Rinko Kawauchi,Terri Weifenbach
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Point Sublime (book+print - last copy)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 75 -
Nature de Luxe (signed)
by Andrew Phelps
Euro 38 -
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (first edition - review copy)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 220 154.00 -
Grosse Photographen unserer Zeit
by Inge Morath
sold out -
Sun City
by Peter Granser
sold out
more books tagged »conceptual« | >> see all
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Reading Raymond Carver (last copy)
by Mary Frey
sold out -
Lorsque le vent viendra
by Gilbert Garcin
sold out -
Heimatkunde (signed)
by Nicolo Degiorgis
sold out -
New Horizons (signed)
by Bruno Van Den Elshout
sold out -
Birds (last copy)
by Yohei Kichiraku
Euro 49 -
Various Shaped Hoses and Snake (last copy)
by Takashi Homma
Euro 68
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Blanco (last copy)
by Awoiska Van Der Molen
sold out -
Exils
by Josef Koudelka
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Donata: Islands of Silence
by Donata Wenders
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Verbrannte Erde
by Salvatore Santoro
Euro 29.90 -
Demolición
by Veronique Chapuy
Euro 60 -
MASAHISA FUKASE
by Masahisa Fukase
sold out
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by Daisuke Yokota
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by Geraldo de Barros
Euro 56 -
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by Thomas Mailaender
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by Hervé Tullet
Euro 18 -
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by Alejandro Marote
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