Synopsis
Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss' photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Talbot, and while striking a chord of homage, the images redefine how and what we see in pictures, viscerally and intellectually. Like an eighteenth-century experimenter, Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach, revealing spiritual and emotional process. Laid atop the paper for hours, and even days, colorization is recorded with a stroboscopic flash. Live snakes, the entrails of rabbits, eggs, cow liver, sperm, flowers, and stained glass circumscribe the vital, often mysterious energies emitted from these pictures. This book, the first major monograph of the artist's work, is certain to be an important contribution to current discussions of photography's past and the question of its future.
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Synopsis
Born in London in 1961, Adam Fuss creates photograms in colour and black and white and glossy daguerrotypes from magnesium plates. Since the early 90s Fuss, who is now based in New York, has been setting standards in contemporary photography with these photographic processes. His work can now be found in the world's most important collections, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York has been collecting his photographs for over ten years. This book presents over 100 new works in which Fuss attempts to record life and death. Colourful spirals leading into the depths, snakes creating waves in water, babies who seem to be x-rayed by his photographic light.
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Arena Editions, 2000
ISBN 10: 0965728013
ISBN 13: 9780965728010
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Seller: Windy City Books, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # 006391
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized. Seller Inventory # mon0000250711
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Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Torn/worn dj. Oversized. Seller Inventory # mon0000108888
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Arena Editions, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997
ISBN 10: 0965728013
ISBN 13: 9780965728010
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First edition. White & color illus. boards, brown & illus. dust jacket, 132 pp., BW & color illus.; weighs 3 lbs. Considers the life and work of British-born photographer Adam Fuss (b. 1961). "Like an eighteenth-century experimenter, Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach, revealing spiritual and emotional process. . This book, the first major monograph of the artist's work, is certain to be an important contribution to current discussions of photography's past and the question of its future." (dj) This self-titled book is about life, death and various cultural and personal views of spirituality. Much like an autobiography in words and pictures, the book catalogues Fuss's progression as he explores the world around him while questioning what it means to "exist." The book starts out with a biography of Fuss's life, providing the viewer with an outline of his interests in the natural and spiritual worlds dating back to his childhood. As his ideas develop, he confronts photography's "problem" -inextricable attachment to realistic representation- by challenging it with his desire to "capture and keep an object's mysterious self-inscription." The results are the 57 plates located in the last section of the book. Using organic and raw materials such as humans and animals, flowers and plants, water, stained glass from churches and light alone, Fuss inscribes their living energies onto the light sensitive paper by use of time and a stroboscopic flash. The universe, conscious versus the unconscious, chaos versus harmony, representations of the soul's journey, and the awareness of eternal return can all be seen throughout these photograms. From abstract expressionism and surrealism to pure documentation, Fuss's unique methodology refers to past masters while revealing his spiritual and emotional process as a journey to discover the essence of natural forms. Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss's photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and Talbot, and while striking a chord of homage, the images redefine how and what we see in pictures, viscerally and intellectually. VG- (DJ fits loosely on book, and one corner is peeling slightly; dj also has light wear to top edge; few marks and labels and pocket as ex-library; otherwise clean and tight.). Seller Inventory # 147847
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Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles, Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good white boards with yellow lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked. VG dust jacket not price clipped; light rubbing along edges. 132pp. Includes a list of plates. Second printing. Seller Inventory # 040360
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Later Printing. 1999 Second Printing. 4to. - over 9¾ in. - 12 in. 131pp. Slight shelfwear, tight binding, interior text clean. Dust jacket lightly worn but clean, no tears. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 655496
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Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # 1799802