Boarding Pass - Softcover

Marcopoulos, Ari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 390599996X ISBN 13: 9783905999969

Publisher: Nieves, 2018

Synopsis

Air travel has informed Ari Marcopoulos’ life more than most. Beyond a necessary mode of transport, the passenger plane has proved something of quiet point of obsession for the Amsterdam-born, New York-based photographer and filmmaker. Before moving to New York in 1980 – where Marcopoulos would carve out a career defined by his raw and intimate renderings of some of America’s most significant subcultural protagonists – he spent much of his childhood flying with his father, a commercial airline pilot. A conversation with Marcopoulos reveals a fascination that still burns. He recalls wandering the tarmac, studying the underside of the wings and fuselage; he remembers riding in the cockpit on an overbooked flight en-route to a Euro Cup final; he flaunts an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of new, old and mothballed commercial airplanes – the Lockheed Super Constellation, Douglas DC-8 Stretch and the Boeing 737-MAX among them. Boarding Pass, Marcopoulos’ new book for Nieves and Perimeter Editions, takes this experience of flight, and the machines that make it possible, as its defining motifs. Photographed over the last year while in transit, the characteristically intuitive, off-the-cuff images that populate this volume offer countless vantages – near and far – of airplanes on the tarmac or in flight, rerouting our gaze from the pragmatic and economic towards the poetic. Here, Marcopoulos appeals to the notion that flying – for all its supposed monotony – is still something close to a miracle.

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About the Author

Ari Marcopoulos (né en 1957 à Amsterdam) a emménagé à New York en 1979, où il est s'est rapidement investi au sein de la scène artistique locale au contact d'artistes tels que Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring ou Robert Mapplethorpe. Depuis, Marcopoulos est reconnu comme un grand photographe et un documentariste majeur de la culture contemporaine. Ses films et ses livres de photographies sur la « sous-culture », la scène hip-hop (il a réalisé un long métrage sur les Beastie Boys), le milieu du snowboard ou son propre entourage familial, capturent l'air du temps en attestant d'un regard à la fois d'initié et d'anthropologue. Marcopoulos semble développer des relations privilégiées avec les personnages qu'il filme ou photographie, qu'ils se nomment Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith, John Cage, LL Cool J ou qu'ils soient de parfaits inconnus, parvenant à saisir l'essence même de la vie quotidienne de ses sujets sans jamais verser dans la sensiblerie ou le voyeurisme.
Le travail de Marcopoulos a été publié dans de nombreux magazines tels que le New York Times, Interview, Paper, Blind Spot et Snowboarder.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nieves
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 390599996X
• ISBN 13: 9783905999969
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80