Alexandra Grant & Keanu Reeves: Shadows

Grant, Alexandra, and Reeves, Keanu (Contributions by)

ISBN 10: 3869308273 / ISBN 13: 9783869308272

Published by Steidl, 2016

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 96 p. Audience: General/trade.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0017389

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexandra Grant & Keanu Reeves: Shadows
• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3869308273
• ISBN 13: 9783869308272
• Binding: Hard cover
• Condition: Very good.

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Synopsis

What exactly is a shadow? Is it light tracing an object or the shape a body throws when it comes between a light source and a surface? Is it a metaphor for the intimate, darker side of a person's nature-as Carl Jung postulated-and the unconscious side of one's self, where daemons and secrets are kept hidden or repressed? Is it an allegorical place between darkness and light, death and living? Or is it a state of illusion, like Plato's cave? Is it a verb that means to follow or accompany, or even to spy on? Shadows, a new collaborative series by Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, explores the real and symbolic nature of the shadow as image and figure of speech. Grant's photographs capture Reeves's shadow at times as a silhouette and at others as traces of light as he and the camera move together. In transforming the images into color and reversing light for dark, Grant has made the shadows themselves the source of light. Reeves's texts, written in tandem with the creation of the images, give voice to the multiple manifestations of the shadow: as a projected figure, a place of concealed emotion and an invocation to shadow play.

Review

An interesting study that sheds light (literally) onto the many manifestations a shadow can have―a projected figure, concealed emotion, or otherwise. (Devon Ivie Interview)