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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Barbara Ess makes subtly-toned photographs that are not so much reality as visionary versions of it. Blurry and distorted, they seem to coax their subjects from mysterious spaces. --Grace Glueck, The New York Times Ess's images often have a dreamy subterranean quality--part wonder and part menace--as if culled directly from the subconscious. --Gregory Volk, ARTnews I Am Not This Body investigates primary, personal experience and relies upon the viewer's imagination and memories. Barbara Ess is renowned for her accomplished use of the pinhole camera and her effort to photograph what cannot be photographed. Ess's is a conscious quest to explore what she calls ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not self, between in here and out there. In her view, reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions-- which] a normal camera tends to omit. The strange and affecting images she coaxes from this primitive camera manage to evoke the sublime and the impossible, the textures of desire and loss. Book News Annotation:Photographer Barbara Ess uses a pinhole camera in her quest to
explore "...ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between
the self and the not-self, between in here and out there." The book
contains text by the artist and other contributors, as well as a list
of exhibitions, books, articles and reviews, interviews and
statements, videos, and other information. The 54 color plates
display her unusual and evocative work. Oversize: 12x9.75<">.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Essays by Michael Cunningham, Thurston Moore and Guy Armstrong.
Synopsis:A book of strange and affecting images that evoke both the sublime and the impossible Barbara Ess is renowned for her unique use of the pinhole camera, and her effort to "photograph what cannot be photographed." These haunting images, made over the last twenty years, describe a mysterious world of seemingly mundane surfaces where everyday objects are mantled in inscrutability. Ess's is a conscious quest to explore what she calls "ambiguous perceptual boundaries: between people, between the self and the not self, between in here and out there." Using a simple cardboard camera with no lens and a minute aperture, Ess creates unsettling, richly evocative photographs. I Am Not This Body probes the primary, personal experience, and depends on the viewer's imagination, instincts, and memories. About the AuthorOver the past two decades, Barbara Ess has been represented in numerous exhibitions, including a large retrospective of her work at the Queens Museum in 1993. She also works with video and installation. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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