Equipose gives us an entree into an entirely new realm of portrait photography while at the same time offering access to some of the most perfect specimens that are "working" today.
In this exceptional body of work, Makos explores the convergence of art, style, form, function, and even musculature and power
The result is a book every bit as innovative, intriguing, and daring as the man who created it.
Ranging from brilliantly crisp black-and-whites to luminescent colours and softly muted sepia-tones, bestselling author Christopher Makos has created an intimate yet wide-ranging volume detailing his encounter with one of nature's most majestic creatures. He presents an intriguing portrait of the horses: through his lens they are eerily human, yet elusive and beyond our total understanding.
In their greatness, the animals exceed the photographers' frames. Makos' lense trains on the animals in a way that has never been used before. He focuses our attention on the details: the gentleness with which their necks curve, the naked lines of the back and the strength with which their hooves meet the soil. His images deconstruct horses to their individual features and again reassemble them into full beings.
Through the unique vision of one of the great artists of our time, horses are innovatively and daringly depicted in their entirety, their essential selves transformed before our eyes.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'I wish I could take photographs like that.' - Andy Warhol. Christopher Makos was Andy Warhol's protege, the brains behind 'Interview' magazine and an intern for Man Ray...and has been exhibited at the Guggenheim and the Whitney.' - Munich Press
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Bilderbuch
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
mit Schutzumschlag
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 271 mm
Breite: 225 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-9765851-2-1 (9780976585121)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Christopher Makos is a world-renowned photographer. He is best known for his work in portraiture and has exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. He was an apprentice with photographer Man Ray in Paris and collaborated with Andy Warhol. Some of his previous books include Exhibitionism, a collaboration on studies of the male nude with Calvin Klein; Equipose, unique portraiture of horses (Glitterati, 2005); and Warhol In Context, which visually chronicles his unique access to this major artist during the '70s, '80s, and '90s.
Christopher Makos is a world-renowned photographer known for his work in portraiture. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he grew up in California before moving to Paris to study architecture, and later to work as an apprentice to Man Ray. During the 1980's, Makos was a seminal figure in the New York art scene, where he was responsible for introducing the work of both Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to Andy Warhol. His photographs have been the subject of numerous exhibitions both in galleries and museums, with works shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and New York's Whitney Museum. Makos' images have appeared in countless magazines and newspapers worldwide including Interview, Rolling Stone, House and Garden, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People. He is the author of several important photography books published by Glitterati Incorporated.
Dotson Rader has written widely on culture and politics for leading publications in the United States and abroad. Rader has published four novels and three works of nonfiction and has been a contributing editor to Esquire and Parade magazines. Rader lives in New York City.
