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PUBLISHER
Karma, New York/Studio Voltaire

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 10 x 10 in. / 168 pgs / 80 color.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 102   

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ISBN 9781942607700 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $60.00 GBP £40.00

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BOOKSELLER TRADE ANNOTATION

Collier uses sly, ironic humor to point out subtle sexism in these found images of women with cameras
  • THE BOOK: Like a cross between Women in Trees and Cindy Sherman:Untitled Film StillsAnne Collier rephotographs photos of women carrying cameras, taking photographs, and generally in the act of capturing a photographic image. Anonymous found photos and vintage ads.
  • THE ARTIST: Anne Collier is a LA-born NYC-based conceptual artist who works in photography and is known for cataloging objects and images in her photos.

  

KARMA, NEW YORK/STUDIO VOLTAIRE

Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous)


Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous)

Women with Cameras (Anonymous) is a new artist's book by Anne Collier (born 1970), with a text by Hilton Als (winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism), that consists of a sequence of 80 images of found amateur photographs that each depict a female subject in the act of holding a camera or taking a photograph. .

Dating from the 1970s to the early 2000s, these artifacts of the pre-digital age were collected by Collier over a number of years from flea markets, thrift stores and online market places. Each of these photographs has, at some point in the recent past, been discarded by its original owner. The concept of "abandonment," of photographic images and the personal histories that they represent, is central to Women with Cameras (Anonymous), which amplifies photography’s relationship with memory, melancholia and loss. The sequence of the images in Collier's book follows the format of her 35mm slide projection work Women with Cameras (Anonymous) (2016), that was recently shown to great acclaim in Tokyo, Japan, and Basel, Switzerland.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous).'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Bookforum

Lidija Haas

Whether concentrating hard or giving us the finger, they know we're looking...

Art in America

Anne Collier tends toward oblique and open-ended images that resist any simple message about the male or female gaze.

Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous)

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/9/2017

Bristling with post-Freudian electricity: Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous)

Bristling with post-Freudian electricity: Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous)

Featured image is reproduced from Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Anonymous)—new from Karma and Studio Voltaire. Collier’s images “bristle with a kind of post-Freudian electricity;” Hilton Als writes, “there’s a pile up of ‘meaning’ that gets shown and eradicated at the same time in her pictures with their complicated underpinnings including the idea of ‘media’, and women in the age of mechanical reproduction: Are her female subjects ‘real’ or have they been rendered ‘unreal’ by the camera, that which edits so much of the real world out to give us all those disquieting image of women with dewy skin, flying hair?” continue to blog


ANNE COLLIER MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Anne Collier: Women with Cameras (Self Portrait)

ANNE COLLIER: WOMEN WITH CAMERAS (SELF PORTRAIT)

Karma, New York

ISBN: 9781949172003
USD $45.00
| CAD $62 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 8/28/2018
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