Cyclops.

Watson, Albert

ISBN 10: 0821221418 / ISBN 13: 9780821221419

Published by Boston Callaway Editions, 1994

About this Item

S., orig. Pappband mit Schutzumschlag ; Sprache: englisch ; 246 Quadratone Plates ; sehr guter Zustand, keine Gebrauchsspuren ;

Seller Inventory # 42122

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cyclops.
• Publisher: Boston Callaway Editions
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821221418
• ISBN 13: 9780821221419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunst / Malerei

About this title

Synopsis

Presents a collection of iconic portraits and photographs taken from the twenty-five-year long career of the photographer

Reviews

Style is substance in Watson's photography--the style of fashion, faux crime, hypersex, and celebrity. There is a slightly jagged edge to his take on the world, but it is an edge safely dulled by a carefully cultivated aestheticism that makes the pictures go down easy. That said, Watson is undeniably a powerful magazine photographer whose darkly beautiful images (reproduced herein by Agfa's new CristalRaser technology) glisten with seductively described surfaces. His subjects range from travel photos of Marrakesh to celebrity portraits to fashion fiction (in a lengthy "Malcolm X Fashion Story"). Interspersed--and perhaps constituting the book's central thread--are strange object-portraits of Moroccan fetishes and other, more contemporary fetish objects. The crazy quilt of typefaces used for the captions and mercifully short text might be seen as avant-garde, or more cynically as the computer work of a designer with multiple personality disorder--as style as substance, in any case. Gretchen Garner