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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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
More books by Roger Ballen
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One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Shadow Chamber (signed)
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sold out -
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by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
Elemental (signed)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
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by Roger Ballen
Euro 44 -
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by Roger Ballen
sold out -
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by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Roger Ballen(signed)
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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)
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Euro 95 -
Outland (signed)
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Euro 53 -
drawing meets photography (signed)
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Euro 44 -
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-
Witty Kiwi Mag: Issue 2
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Truths & Fictions (signed)
by Pedro Meyer
Euro 165 -
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Euro 34.90 -
Brighton Picture Hunt
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by Fausto Giaccone
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by Josef Hoflehner
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by Masakazu Murakami
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by Martin Parr
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by Renato D'Agostin
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by Israel Ariño
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by Masao Yamamoto
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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
More books by Roger Ballen
-
One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Shadow Chamber (signed)
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 -
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 »American« | >> see all
-
Witty Kiwi Mag: Issue 2
by various photographers
sold out -
SPBH Book Club Vol III (signed - last copy)
by Cristina de Middel
sold out -
Harry Callahan, Retrospective
by Harry Callahan
sold out -
Truths & Fictions (signed)
by Pedro Meyer
Euro 165 -
drawn by the light
by Roland Pleterski / OstLIcht Collection
Euro 34.90 -
Brighton Picture Hunt
by Alec Soth
sold out
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
A Portuguese Story (signed - last copy)
by Fausto Giaccone
sold out -
Unleashed Two (signed)
by Josef Hoflehner
sold out -
KUMOGAKURE ONSEN : Reclusive Travels (signed+print)
by Masakazu Murakami
sold out -
Bad Weather (signed)
by Martin Parr
sold out -
Sol & Luna
by Viviane Sassen
sold out -
7439. (signed)
by Renato D'Agostin
Euro 250
more books tagged »abstract« | >> see all
-
Lines & Tapes
by Hervé Tullet
Euro 25 -
Color Photographs (signed - last copy)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold out -
Sobras
by Geraldo de Barros
Euro 56 -
Skin Memories
by Thomas Mailaender
sold out -
Humanity
by Kazuto Ishikawa
Euro 54 -
A
by Alejandro Marote
Euro 50
more books tagged »conceptual« | >> see all
-
west
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 56 28.00 -
New Horizons (signed)
by Bruno Van Den Elshout
sold out -
Le nom qui efface la couleur (signed)
by Israel Ariño
Euro 33 -
Small Things in Silence
by Masao Yamamoto
sold out -
Eclipse
by Antoine d'Agata
sold out -
An Invented World
by Paolo Ventura
sold out
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