Elad Lassry

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ELAD LASSRY
Edited by Honey Luard. Text by André Rottman.
WHITE CUBE
ISBN: 9781906072711 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2013
Forthcoming

ELAD LASSRY: 2000 WORDS
Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Tim Griffin.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9789609931489 | US $22.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2013
Forthcoming

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ELAD LASSRY: ON ONIONS
Text by Angie Keefer.
PRIMARY INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780985136413 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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ELAD LASSRY
LUHRING AUGUSTINE
ISBN: 9780977115044 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2012
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ELAD LASSRY
Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Text by Bettina Funcke. Fionn Meade, Liz Kotz.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641521 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 1/31/2011
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Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry: 2000 Words

Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Tim Griffin.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

Through the use of bright colors and familiar, commercial imagery, Elad Lassry challenges the nature of perception and questions the meaning of the contemporary image. An essay by The Kitchen’s Tim Griffin highlights how Lassry’s photographs act as a vessel for the viewer’s own social understanding.

Elad Lassry

Edited by Honey Luard. Text by André Rottman.
Published by White Cube

Over the past few years, through photographs, films and sculpture, as well as interventions in the gallery space, Los Angeles–based artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) has developed a reputation for the wit and rigor of his investigations into how we perceive and conceive pictures. Published to accompany a show at White Cube Hong Kong, this elegant volume presents his latest body of work, made in 2012, which comprises pictures, sculptures and a drawing, as well as bizarre hybrid objects that consciously and intelligently question distinctions between media. For Lassry, the act of looking, whether at a unique artwork, human face or generic coffee cup, is always a picture-making process. His latest work provokes tensions between embodied experience and the abstract thought evoked by that experience.

Elad Lassry: On Onions

Text by Angie Keefer.
Published by Primary Information

On Onions is a photographic study of onions by Israeli-born artist Elad Lassry (born 1977). Characteristically highlighting the spectrum of hues and shapes for the vegetable, Lassry’s selected taxonomy includes sections on red, yellow and white onions, each of which possesses its own distinct taste and benefits. On Onions is Lassry’s first artist’s book, and the work will exist only in book form; it is at once wry, refreshing and disorienting in its biology workbook style, which makes fruitful use of “the confusion that results when there is something just slightly wrong in a photograph” (as the artist has described his practice in general). Composed by the artist and arranged by Stuart Bailey, the book includes an essay written by Angie Keefer about the effects of sliced onions on human tear ducts.

Elad Lassry

Published by Luhring Augustine

The photographs, films and sculptures of Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) take multiple points of departure: the ultra-saturated imagery of commercial advertising, the seductive rhetoric of retail and the clean production of the film still. Lassry purposefully blurs distinctions between genres, media and sources, confronting our habits of processing and consuming of images. His radical blend of high and low, staged and appropriated, unique and mass-produced, leaves the viewer in a bewitched state of doubt as to the proper function of his work. Questioning origin, authorship and intentionality, Lassry’s disquieting compositions nonetheless glow with sensual, mesmerizing appeal. This catalogue is published for Lassry’s first solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York, and includes 43 color images of both photographs as well as documentation of the 35mm film included in that exhibition.

Elad Lassry

Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Text by Bettina Funcke. Fionn Meade, Liz Kotz.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Drawing on the language and conventions of media and advertizing, Israeli-born artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) focuses his attention on the surfaces and histories of the things and people he captures. The first monograph devoted to his work, this volume surveys Lassry's visually seductive photographs and films, which thematize the relationship between the image and the picture as an object.