Adam Fuss (Arena Editions, First Printing)

FUSS, Adam, PARRY, Eugenia

ISBN 10: 0965728013 / ISBN 13: 9780965728010

Published by Arena Editions, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards, with dust jacket. Photographs by Adam Fuss. Essay by Eugenia Parry. 132 pp. with 57 four-color plates, and numerous black and white reference illustrations. 12-1/4 x 9-7/8 inches. Out of print. Scarce. New in publisher's shrink-wrap. Selected as one of the top ten books on photography in 1997 for the New York Times Book Review. From the publisher: "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. Like an eighteenth-century experimenter, Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach, revealing spiritual and emotional process. Live snakes, the entrails of rabbits, eggs, cow liver, sperm, flowers, and stained glass circumscribe the vital, often mysterious energies emitted from these pictures.".

Seller Inventory # 100976

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam Fuss (Arena Editions, First Printing)
• Publisher: Arena Editions, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965728013
• ISBN 13: 9780965728010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Trace
  • Water
  • Corporeal
  • Abstraction
  • Animal

About this title

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.

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.