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Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool
Text by Ed Templeton.
The Swimming Pool is a new photographic essay from California-based street photographer Deanna Templeton (born 1969) that departs from her usual style to offer an expressive, intimate view of the human form underwater. The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming-pool shoot of husband and artist Ed Templeton, which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression and the enigma of water. Shooting entirely on color and black-and-white film and Polaroid, Templeton sent friends into the pool to be photographed in their truest form. Unlike her street photography, in which subjects were often strangers, Templeton found that creating these portraits required more intimacy and connection—a feeling that is apparent throughout every image in the series, which show strong, liberated individuals, confident and at ease in their most beautiful and vulnerable moments. As Ed Templeton writes in his afterword to this volume, "the nude swimmer is floating in a void of quiet solitude, the gentle pressure of being underwater enclosing her form like a baby in a womb and nothing exists outside of this world. A lone figure amidst a sea of blues and greys and frenetic sunlight performing a solitary dance for the photographer above, choosing movements and directions, twisting and swooping, contorting and expelling breaths painting a picture of form and light together." The Swimming Pool offers a deep and inspiring view of the human form.
Featured image is reproduced from Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Blisss Magazine
Ashley Macomber
...in her work is compassion and empathy, and a deep connection with humanity that can be painful at times.
Badlands Magazine
‘The Swimming Pool’ delivers a proud and absolute stripped vision of the human body, presented through wondrous shapes and romantic hues, without limits.
Juxtapoz Magazine
not only a testament to the power of restraint, but to the beauty of human form and space.
i-D
Alice Newell-Hanson
Like bugs in amber, the swimmers' bodies are caught in languid momentary poses indefinitely. But far from being static, they seem to drift freely through an endless summer.
Photo-Eye Blog
Johnson J Christopher
a 'quiet meditation similar to the act of swimming' and being alone underwater.
This grid of photographs is reproduced from The Swimming Pool, Deanna Templeton's dreamy new monograph from Um Yeah Arts. Over the course of 96 oversized pages, sleek, nude swimmers perform a "solitary dance for the photographer above, choosing movements and directions, twisting and swooping, contorting and expelling breaths painting a picture of form and light together"—in the words of the Ed Templeton, photographer and husband of Deanna, who will be signing books at Arcana this evening. continue to blog
"A young woman molts from her clothes, which fall to the concrete around her ankles, and steps to the edge of the pool without pretense leaving a small pile of material behind. The air surrounds her body with a flutter and the sun falls on foreign skin with a tickle. The water is still, and her figure is reflected inversely along with the surrounding wooden fence, plants, the neighbor’s house—an alternative universe waiting to be explored. She extends a toe softly down to the glassy sheet, just breaking the surface and emitting a mild sonar ripple from the point of impact. The surface water locks to her skin as it envelops her body shattering the mirror image into shards of undulating trapezoids as the water is displaced and scatters, sending chain reactions all directions that crash to the edge with a splash and back again in a chaos of energy." - From Ed Templeton's text in The Swimming Pool, Deanna Templeton's's new collection of Southern California underwater nudes. continue to blog
The perfect book for the long, hot days of summer, The Swimming Pool is Deanna Templeton's elegant yet playful book of floating, shooting, revolving, swimming nudes from Um Yeah Arts. "Like bugs in amber," Alice Newell-Hanson writes in i-D, "the swimmers' bodies are caught in languid momentary poses indefinitely. But far from being static, they seem to drift freely through an endless summer." continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 12.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 26 color / 41 b&w LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $72.5 GBP £50.00 ISBN: 9781942884002 PUBLISHER: Um Yeah Arts AVAILABLE: 6/28/2016 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
The Swimming Pool is a new photographic essay from California-based street photographer Deanna Templeton (born 1969) that departs from her usual style to offer an expressive, intimate view of the human form underwater. The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming-pool shoot of husband and artist Ed Templeton, which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression and the enigma of water. Shooting entirely on color and black-and-white film and Polaroid, Templeton sent friends into the pool to be photographed in their truest form. Unlike her street photography, in which subjects were often strangers, Templeton found that creating these portraits required more intimacy and connection—a feeling that is apparent throughout every image in the series, which show strong, liberated individuals, confident and at ease in their most beautiful and vulnerable moments. As Ed Templeton writes in his afterword to this volume, "the nude swimmer is floating in a void of quiet solitude, the gentle pressure of being underwater enclosing her form like a baby in a womb and nothing exists outside of this world. A lone figure amidst a sea of blues and greys and frenetic sunlight performing a solitary dance for the photographer above, choosing movements and directions, twisting and swooping, contorting and expelling breaths painting a picture of form and light together." The Swimming Pool offers a deep and inspiring view of the human form.
