Create and be Recognized. Photography on the Edge. Essay by Roger Cardinal.

Turner, John F. / Klochko, Deborah

ISBN 10: 0811844323 / ISBN 13: 9780811844321

Published by San Francisco (CA). Chronicle Books. 2004, 2004

About this Item

Erste Auflage. 26,2 x 26,2 cm. 155 S. Illustrierter OPappband. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Durchgehend mit meist farbigen Abbildungen versehen. Texte in englischer Sprache.In der vorliegenden Publikation werden die Werke von siebzehn Künstlern präsentiert, zumeist Autodidakten, die Fotografie oder fotografische Elemente in ihre Arbeitenintegrieren. Es handelt sich nicht nur um Arbeiten von ungeschulten oder isolierten Künstlern, sondern auch von solchen, die von extremen Veranlagungen oder Umständen angetrieben wurden. Die Verbreitung von Bildern dieser Kunst, geschaffen von Menschen, die aus verschiedenen Gründen vom üblichen, d.h. "normalen" Sozialverhalten abgegrenzt waren - psychisch Kranke, Gefängnisinsassen oder Exzentriker -, hielt in den frühen 1920er Jahren Einzug in die Kunstwelt und wird seitdem von der Fotografie kontinuierlich rezipiert.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Create and be Recognized. Photography on the Edge. Essay by Roger Cardinal.
• Publisher: San Francisco (CA). Chronicle Books. 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811844323
• ISBN 13: 9780811844321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fotografie: Bildleistung / Monographien

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Synopsis

Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations, including such luminaries as Adolf Wolfli, Howard Finster, and Henry Darger, as well as discoveries from little known, equally dramatic artists. As with most outsider art, the work here is fuelled by singular passions, marginalized mindsets, and extreme circumstances, falling outside mainstream picture-making. Employing collage (affixing photos or reproductions to a background), photocollage (photographs cut and pasted together to form a new whole), and tableaux (works based on manipulation and staging), the artists here present work that is, by turns, lyrical and frightening, and always fascinating. Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition of the same name originating at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Create and Be Recognized documents an emerging and important facet of contemporary photography.

About the Author

Deborah Klochko has twenty year's experience as a photography curator and educator. The former director of the Friends of Photography, she lives in San Francisco.

John Turner is a writer, television producer, and an adjunct curator at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.