Edited by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz. Text by Mark Godfrey, Tom McDonough.
Internationally renowned artist and self-described "still-life photographer" Eileen Quinlan (born 1972) uses medium- and large-format analog cameras to create abstract photographs, working the film with steel wool or lengthy chemical processing. Among the subjects of her photographs are smoke, mirrors, Mylar, colored lights and other photographs. Featuring color reproductions and in-depth critical essays by Mark Godfrey and Tom McDonough, this book surveys Quinlan’s use of Polaroid film from 2006 to 2017. Initially used as a tool for proofing, Quinlan’s Polaroids can be seen as sketches, moments in which crucial formal and conceptual questions were explored and worked out. Moving through her extensive archive, one can find the origins of almost every larger body of work, as well as many ideas that remained in the repository, evidencing the artist’s desire to push beyond the constraints of her apparatus.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Eileen Quinlan: Good Enough.'
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Friday, February 22 from 6:30–8 PM, Printed Matter and Ugly Duckling Presse present a book release celebration with Eileen Quinlan, Ed Steck and Robert Fitterman. Quinlan will read a collaborative text with Steck composed in conversation with her new book, Good Enough, published by Osmos Books. Steck will read from his new UDP book, An Interface for a Fractal Landscape, and Fitterman and Andy Lampert will perform from Rob’s Word Shop, also from UDP, and re-stage an improvised transaction of words and letters based on Fitterman’s durational performance work. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $90 GBP £57.00 ISBN: 9780990698067 PUBLISHER: OSMOS BOOKS AVAILABLE: 1/22/2019 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by OSMOS BOOKS. Edited by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz. Text by Mark Godfrey, Tom McDonough.
Internationally renowned artist and self-described "still-life photographer" Eileen Quinlan (born 1972) uses medium- and large-format analog cameras to create abstract photographs, working the film with steel wool or lengthy chemical processing. Among the subjects of her photographs are smoke, mirrors, Mylar, colored lights and other photographs. Featuring color reproductions and in-depth critical essays by Mark Godfrey and Tom McDonough, this book surveys Quinlan’s use of Polaroid film from 2006 to 2017. Initially used as a tool for proofing, Quinlan’s Polaroids can be seen as sketches, moments in which crucial formal and conceptual questions were explored and worked out. Moving through her extensive archive, one can find the origins of almost every larger body of work, as well as many ideas that remained in the repository, evidencing the artist’s desire to push beyond the constraints of her apparatus.
