Post Truth
A love letter to Los Angeles through the lens of a pastel postmodernism
Published on 10. October 2023
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-2-8123-2154-2 (ISBN)
Description
George Byrne's photography depicts the gritty urbanism of Los Angeles in sublime otherworldliness. Arriving a decade ago, the Australian artist was immediately enthralled by the sprawling cityscape of L.A., mesmerised by the way the sunlight transformed it, into two-dimensional, almost painterly abstractions. In his Post Truth series (2015-22), Byrne reassembles his photos of the urban landscape into striking, ascetic collages of colour and geometric fragments, creating a postmodernist oasis in the metropolis. By masterfully harnessing the malleability of the photographic medium, the photographer situates his work in the space between real and imagined. Byrne's compositions evoke associations with Miami Beach's Art Deco, the Memphis Group's designs, as well as the painting of David Hockney or Ed Ruscha, and at the same time tap into the aesthetics of today's visual culture played out on Instagram.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Paris
France
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
68 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 301 mm
Width: 247 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1196 gr
ISBN-13
978-2-8123-2154-2 (9782812321542)
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George Byrne creates large-scale photographs that depict everyday surfaces and landscapes as painterly abstractions. Borrowing from the clean, vivid clarity of modernist painting, he also references the New Topographics photography movement via a subject matter firmly entrenched in the urban everyday.
"I'd always been interested in urban photography, but it wasn't until I moved to LA and started shooting in color and experimenting with manipulation and assemblage that I felt I was able to do anything very expressive or original with it. The images I'm making now are based on reality but quite removed from it at the same time, hence the effect is one of pleasurable disconcertion. They are dreamscapes." - GB.
Born in Sydney in 1976, Byrne graduated from Sydney College Of The Arts in 2001, travelled extensively, and then settled in Los Angeles in 2011 - where he now lives and works.
"I'd always been interested in urban photography, but it wasn't until I moved to LA and started shooting in color and experimenting with manipulation and assemblage that I felt I was able to do anything very expressive or original with it. The images I'm making now are based on reality but quite removed from it at the same time, hence the effect is one of pleasurable disconcertion. They are dreamscapes." - GB.
Born in Sydney in 1976, Byrne graduated from Sydney College Of The Arts in 2001, travelled extensively, and then settled in Los Angeles in 2011 - where he now lives and works.