Durst Eli (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Flexi hardcover, 144 pages. 9.5 x 12 in. Color illus. Sealed, new. The Four Pillars grew out of a relationship with a faith-based self-help group in Newtown, Connecticut, that Durst photographed over several years. Despite their ostensibly comfortable lives, these affluent suburbanites felt unfulfilled and directionless. They met weekly in church basements to discuss spiritual and secular strategies to find meaning and purpose, and to deconstruct the markers of success, progress and identity within middle-class American society. Durst's staged, inventive images build organically on this self-critical base structure by inventing scenarios that interrogate the relationship between the individual and the group, the norms we aspire to, and the social gravity that holds these two in alignment. Durst takes the details of these scenarios mundane family portraits, team bonding exercises, pregnancy groups, school gyms, amateur theatre, county fairs and amplifies their strangeness, through a lens that is at once factual, fictional, banal and absurd.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. 24 x 31cm very good hardback packed with black and white reproductions in which American photographer Eli Durstscrutinises aspirational American fantasies of happiness, self-improvement and individuality in a provocative critique of social rituals, groups and norms. The Four Pillars grew out of a relationship with a faith-based self-help group in Newtown, Connecticut, that Durst photographed over several years. Despite their ostensibly comfortable lives, these affluent suburbanites felt unfulfilled and directionless. They met weekly in church basements to discuss spiritual and secular strategies to find meaning and purpose, and to deconstruct the markers of success, progress and identity within middle-class American society. Durst s staged, inventive images build organically on this self-critical base structure by inventing scenarios that interrogate the relationship between the individual and the group, the norms we aspire to, and the social gravity that holds these two in alignment. Durst takes the details of these scenarios mundane family portraits, team bonding exercises, pregnancy groups, school gyms, amateur theatre, county fairs and amplifies their strangeness, through a lens that is at once factual, fictional, banal and absurd.

paperback. Condition: Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione (First Edition). 70 fotografie in bainco e nero, a piena pagina, di Eli Durst. Allegato un foglio con il testo di Lucas Russo "The Four Pillars of Wisdom" . Cm 27x23,5. pp. 144. . Perfetto (Mint). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . Durst esamina attentamente le ambiziose fantasie americane di felicità, miglioramento personale e individualità in una critica provocatoria dei rituali, dei gruppi e delle norme sociali.The Four Pillars è nato da una relazione con un gruppo di auto-aiuto basato sulla fede a Newtown, nel Connecticut, che Durst ha fotografato per diversi anni. Nonostante la loro vita apparentemente confortevole, questi ricchi abitanti delle periferie si sentivano insoddisfatti e senza direzione. Si incontravano settimanalmente negli scantinati delle chiese per discutere strategie spirituali e secolari per trovare significato e scopo e per decostruire gli indicatori di successo, progresso e identità all'interno della società americana della classe media.Le immagini messe in scena e creative di Durst si costruiscono organicamente su questa struttura di base autocritica inventando scenari che interrogano la relazione tra l'individuo e il gruppo, le norme a cui aspiriamo e la gravità sociale che tiene questi due in allineamento. Durst prende i dettagli di questi scenari ? banali ritratti di famiglia, esercizi di legame di squadra, gruppi di gravidanza, palestre scolastiche, teatro amatoriale, fiere di contea ? e ne amplifica la stranezza, attraverso una lente che è allo stesso tempo reale, immaginaria, banale e assurda. Book.