Bridget Smith: Society - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3865214053 ISBN 13: 9783865214058

Publisher: SteidlMACK, 2007

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From the Kurdish Community Centre to the Masons, the Fabian Society, The Indian Workers Association and the National Association of Flower Arrangers, Bridget Smith's portraits of London's private clubs, fraternal orders and ethnic societies reveal rich, hidden worlds within the city, spaces where communities are forged. Smith has an ongoing interest in architecture and the public realm, and an international reputation for photographing sites of public leisure (cinema auditoria) and private fantasy (themed hotel rooms, glamour studios). Her interiors always offer resonant and evocative portraits, but Society sees a shift in attention towards subject matter that some would argue is more resonant--community, the expression of identity, and the creation, in artifact and architecture, of homes-away-from-home.

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About the Author

Bridget Smith is a photographer who has an on-going interest in architecture and the public realm and the emotional resonance within built form. She has an international reputation for photographing interiors and landscapes devoid of people. These places have often been sites of public leisure (cinema auditoria) or private fantasy (themed hotel rooms, glamour studios). In Society Bridget's work starts shifting towards a preoccupation with people and the worlds they create. Recent major solo exhibitions include "Rebuild", De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 2006; "Cosmos", Frith Street Gallery, London, 2005; and "Bridget Smith", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, 2003. In 2000 she was awarded the Tate Tokyo Residency, is represented in many national collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Government Art Collection, and Arts Council of England Collection.

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