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One summer night Catherine Balet was inspired by the sight of a young couple standing in the sea bathed in moonlight, shooting a self-portrait with a mobile phone. Balet was touched by the beauty of the scene, the two white bodies revealed by the lightning of the electric flash, and was struck that this was the point where technology met romanticism, where the future met the past, and the blue light of the new world met the golden light of classical painting. Connecting the ephemeral, vacuous, anonymous nature of an out of control digital world with long-lived cultural references, Balet questions how yesterday links into tomorrow. Strangers in the Light explores the dominance of media screens in contemporary life, from surgical simulators to interactive sex, from a connected family gathering to the violence of video games. Her images also refer to the narcissistic self-awareness expressed on social networks and the new approach to quick, light mobile photography that affects our visual culture. All the scenes are lit only with the technological devices, generating a mysterious beauty. Balet casts a fascinated, sometimes ironic, eye on the intricate relationship between man and technology, providing a captivating portrait of our society that hovers between fiction and documentary. Ines connected with Amina, an early image from the series, won the London National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Photographic Third prize in 2008.
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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-03-25 Pages: 96 Language: English Publisher: Steidl One summer night Catherine Balet was inspired by the sight of a young couple standing in the sea bathed in moonlight. shooting a self-portrait with a mobile phone . Balet was touched by the beauty of the scene. the two white bodies revealed by the lightning of the electric flash. and was struck that this was the point where technology met romanticism. where the future met the past. and the blue light of the new world met the golden light of classical painting. Connecting the ephemeral. vacuous. anonymous nature of an out of control digital world with long-lived cultural references. Balet questions how yesterday links into tomorrow. Strangers in the Light explores the dominance of media screens in contemporary life. from surgical simulators to interactive sex. from a connected family gathering to th...
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- PublisherSteidl
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 3869302852
- ISBN 13 9783869302850
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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Book Description Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. "(.) Il ne s'agissait pas de me référer aux chefs-d'oeuvre en tant que sujets d'une parodie, mais d'établir une correspondance entre deux mondes où la conception de l'espace et du temps est différente. "__Parmi les chefs-d'oeuvre choisis par la photographe pour "établir une correspondance entre deux mondes", citons Nuit d'été de HOMER, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe et l'Olympia de MANET, L'Astronome de VERMEER, La Mort de Marat par DAVID, L'Absinthe de DEGAS, L'Angélus de MILLET.__Soixante-quatorze photographies en couleurs, la plupart à pleine page, non titrées.__Göttingen, Steidl, 2012, 28,5 x 29 cm, cartonnage illustré, jaquette de papier calque (titre, auteur, éditeur), 96 pages.__TEXTE EN FRANÇAIS/ANGLAIS. Seller Inventory # steidl102
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). Testo e fotografie a colori di Catherine Balet. Edizione in inglese e francese . 4to (cm 29x28,5). pp. 96. . Perfetto (Mint). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . Strangers in the Light explores the dominance of media screens in contemporary life, from surgical simulators to interactive sex, from a connected family gathering to the violence of video games. Her images also refer to the narcissistic self-awareness expressed on social networks and the new approach to quick, light mobile photography that affects our visual culture. All the scenes are lit only with the technological devices, generating a mysterious beauty. Balet casts a fascinated, sometimes ironic, eye on the intricate relationship between man and technology, providing a captivating portrait of our society that hovers between fiction and documentary. Ines connected with Amina, an early image from the series, won the London National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Photographic Third prize in 2008. Strangers in the Light esplora il dominio degli schermi mediatici nella vita contemporanea, dai simulatori chirurgici al sesso interattivo, da una riunione familiare connessa alla violenza dei videogiochi. Le sue immagini si riferiscono anche all'autocoscienza narcisistica espressa sui social network e al nuovo approccio alla fotografia veloce e leggera che colpisce la nostra cultura visiva. Tutte le scene sono illuminate solo con i dispositivi tecnologici, generando una bellezza misteriosa. Balet getta un occhio affascinato, a volte ironico, sull'intricata relazione tra l'uomo e la tecnologia, fornendo un ritratto accattivante della nostra società che si libra tra la finzione e il documentario. Ines connected with Amina, la prima immagine della serie, ha vinto il London National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Photographic Third prize nel 2008. Book. Seller Inventory # bc_228259
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