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Item Details
Title:
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ERWIN OLAF
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By: |
Erwin Olaf, Alasdair Foster |
Format: |
Hardback |

List price:
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£40.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1597110612 |
ISBN 13: |
9781597110617 |
Publisher: |
APERTURE |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 2008 |
Pages: |
112 |
Description: |
Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf delivers a velvet-gloved emotional impact with his highly stylized mode of image making. His work offers a blend of mid-century modern and noir aesthetics seen through a contemporary, fashion-inflected lens. This title investigates Olaf's fascination with the visual representation of emotions. |
Synopsis: |
Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf delivers a velvet-gloved emotional impact with his highly stylized mode of image making. His work offers a blend of mid-century modern and noir aesthetics seen through a contemporary, fashion-inflected lens. The ambience of the series presented in this volume the first time these three bodies of work have been presented as a whole is truly enigmatic and enticing. Olaf seduces the viewer via a mannered, restrained palette that is replete with faded avocado greens, golden-hued oranges, and subtle lilacs. Each richly colored and sleekly composed image offers a sly reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell-like iconography and characters, manifesting a nostalgia that both burlesques and wryly celebrates America of the 1950s and 60s. As a whole, the material investigates what critic Jonathan Turner defines as Olaf's recent fascination with the visual representation of such emotions of loss, loneliness, and quiet despair...[He] plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope, and joy are lost. |
Illustrations: |
65 colour illustrations |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Aperture |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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