Ari Marcopoulos: Directory

Ari Marcopoulos

ISBN 10: 0847835324 / ISBN 13: 9780847835324

Published by Rizolli, 2011

About this Item

Ari Marcopoulos; Directory;Impressive photo book that mimics more like a phone book; It includes approximately 1,200 photographs; Text by Neville Wakefield; Published by Rizzoli; 2011; Condition: Very Good (VG); Includes a signed print by the artist.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1643176167282

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ari Marcopoulos: Directory
• Publisher: Rizolli
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847835324
• ISBN 13: 9780847835324
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photo Books
  • Artist's Books

About this title

Synopsis

Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends. Since his days printing photographs for Andy Warhol, he has amassed a huge body of work marked by its arresting and unsentimental intimacy that has been influential to the worlds of art, fashion, and photography.Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marcopoulos: Directory presents a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos’s singular images. Copublished with Nieves, each book in this limited-edition series includes a print signed by the artist.

About the Author

Ari Marcopoulos is a photographer whose work has been exhibited around the world. His photographs have been acquired by such institutions as SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art and have been featured in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Interview, Snowboarder, and Blind Spot. His books include Out & About and Transitions & Exits. Born in Amsterdam, he currently resides in California and New York. Neville Wakefield is an art curator and a writer on contemporary culture, art, and photography. The author of Postmodernism: The Twilight of the Real, he has contributed to such publications as Artforum,Art in America, i-D, Interview, and Italian Vogue. He lives in New York.