Cameron Jamie

text(s) by Gary Indiana, Mike Kelley, Edwin Pouncey, Ralph Rugoff, preface by Günther Holler-Schuster

ISBN 10: 3775717269 / ISBN 13: 9783775717267

Published by Hatje Cantz, 2006

About this Item

Z : 160 pp., 277 illustrations
- More radical than most artists of his generation, Cameron Jamie (*1969 in Los Angeles) tracks down extreme phenomena in society and presents them to us in a mirror: In his film Spook House he explores a suburb community of Detroit, Michigan, reveling in the macabre at Halloween, transforming front lawns into cemeteries and kitchens into mausoleums.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1680866561956

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cameron Jamie
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775717269
• ISBN 13: 9783775717267
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 20W x 26H x 0D centimeters 20 centimeters width by 26 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drawing
  • Contemporary art
  • Film

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Synopsis

Cameron Jamie's calling is tracking down extreme social phenomena and presenting them in short documentary films. His best known film, BB, documents "backyard wrestling" among working-class kids in his native San Fernando Valley. In Spook Houses, he explores a suburban Chicago community that takes a little too much pleasure in the macabre at Halloween, transforming front lawns into cemeteries and kitchens into mausoleums. And in Kranky Claus, a film about Krampus rituals in Austria, he accompanies those legendary demons on their nightmarish pre-Christmas tour, thrashing frightened children. As Jamie says of his subjects and as he proves to his audiences, "The creepiest things in the world are always the things that are considered to be the most OEormal.'"