Une série de photographies mettant en scène des personnes et des animaux, réalisées pour la plupart par R. Ballen, photographe sud-africain. ©Electre 2025
Best known for his striking photographs of people on the fringes of South African society, Roger Ballen makes images that are ambiguous and often disturbing, but also shot through with flashes of dark humour. The photographs in Shadow Chamber blur the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture, challenging the ways in which we perceive the `reality' of photography. Ballen's images are completely honest, yet also fabricated.
The mysterious, cell-like rooms that Ballen photographs are actual places, but they are unsettling and strange, logical but impossible: their walls are covered with scribbled drawings, stains and dangling wires, the floors are strewn with bizarre props and artefacts. Dogs, rabbits and kittens wander into the frame or are stuffed into unlikely containers. The humans and animals in Ballen's photographs appear isolated and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time. The resulting images are allegories of lived experiences and surreal takes on human destiny.
Paru le : 27/10/2005
Thématique : Ecrits sur la photographie
Auteur(s) : Auteur (photographe) : Roger F. Ballen
Éditeur(s) :
Phaidon
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Préfacier : Robert A. Sobieszek
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9780714844664
Reliure : Relié sous jaquette
Pages : 127
Hauteur: 31.0 cm / Largeur 29.0 cm
Épaisseur: 2.0 cm
Poids: 1276 g
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