Osmosis
1st Edition
Published in November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-3-936165-61-6 (ISBN)
Description
Alvin Booth erzählt mit seinen Figuren im Kokon und teilweise nur in unterschiedlichsten Konturen erkennbar Geschichten von Isolation, ernstem Eigenrespekt, von kurzen tragischen Augenblicken des Zusammentreffens und von der Schönheit der sich auch ihm selbst offenbarenden weiblichen und schon fast übernatürlichen Form. OSMOSIS ist vordergründig klassisch denn offensichtlich erotisch. Dennoch ist das gekonnt Verhüllte lyrischer und erotischer als das 'offenherzige' Werk vieler Zeitgenossen.
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Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Illustrations
durchg. illustriert / eingebunden in einen original Siebdruck (gedruckt mit Thermofarbe)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 47 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-936165-61-6 (9783936165616)
Schweitzer Classification
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Alvin Booth | Alexander Scholz
Osmosis
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11/2006
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Persons
Alvin Booth was born in Hull, an industrial city in the Northeast of England. He left school at the age of seventeen and trained to become a hairdresser. After working in Hull he later moved to Oxford where his interest in photography grew. In 1989 he gave up hairdressing and moved to New York City.
His work is highly valued on the international photography market, and has been exhibited in international museums and is represented by some of the most prestigious galleries in major cities in the United States and Europe. He divides his time between New York and the southwest of France.
Alvin Booths first book of nudes, CORPUS (forward by Charlotte Cotton of the Victoria and Albert Museum) was awarded the Kodak Photo Book press award for 2002.
His work is highly valued on the international photography market, and has been exhibited in international museums and is represented by some of the most prestigious galleries in major cities in the United States and Europe. He divides his time between New York and the southwest of France.
Alvin Booths first book of nudes, CORPUS (forward by Charlotte Cotton of the Victoria and Albert Museum) was awarded the Kodak Photo Book press award for 2002.
Content
"Alvin Booths gift, is alarming in its intimacy because he lets us see what he sees. There is tenderness and a hint of sadness in his photographs of women, seen as though slumbering in a latex cocoon. It is a private vision shared, of (women)s suspended, as though caught after falling from a great height, an impossible, privileged view . Here is the female form in all its bright life, a brightness accentuated by the contrast introduced by splashes of sleep and shadow.", John Krakauer 2006
". Alvin Booth impresses his own secret theatre of the imagination upon what his prints are showing us, the last stage of the process seems to be that he creates in so much of his work the vision of an idealised female form .", Peter Hamilton