Richard Renaldi: Touching Strangers - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597112496 ISBN 13: 9781597112499

Publisher: Aperture, 2014

Synopsis

Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones. Renaldi creates spontaneous and fleeting relationships between strangers for the camera, often pushing his subjects beyond their comfort levels. These relationships may only last for the moment the shutter is released, but the resulting photographs are moving and provocative, and raise profound questions about the possibilities for positive human connection in a diverse society.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Renaldi graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. Renaldi is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York, and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin. Other books by Renaldi include Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016), Fall River Boys (2009), and Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006). In 2015, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography.

Review:

The project began in 2007 when Renaldi began approaching total strangers and asked to photograph them physically interacting with each other. The result was images that display the human tendency toward tenderness and affection than can be found even between complete strangers.--Canbra Hodsdon"Juxtapoz" (03/06/2014)

The photographer Richard Renaldi is a matchmaker for tense times.--John Leland"The New York Times Lens Blog" (07/05/2013)

Most photographers capture life as it is, but in these strangers, Richard Renaldi has captured something much more ethereal and elusive. He shows us humanity as it could be-as most of us wish it would be-and as it was, at least for those one fleeting moments in time.--Steve Hartman"CBS News" (08/02/2013)

Renaldi's unusual photographic formula reveals the unlikely ways the body and the heart can influence each other.--Priscilla Frank"The Huffington Post" (07/16/2013)

About this edition

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1597112496
• ISBN 13: 9781597112499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120