Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break II
Published on 15. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-936316-31-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book evolved from an archive of images collected by artist Sharon Lockhart while researching her project Lunch Break - a series of films and photographs she produced from a long-term collaboration with the workers of Bath Iron Works in Maine, whom she portrayed as they took their lunch break, a classic workday ritual. A companion volume to that project, this publication offers a stunning array of images drawn from a variety of sources, including WPA documentary photographs, Old Master oil paintings, contemporary art, and photographs by Lockhart herself. The result is a rich visual narrative that explores the pursuit of leisure in the context of work.
Reviews / Votes
"Lunch Break engages a history of photographic meditations on the worker by figures such Eugene Atget, August Sander, and Lewis Hine, but despite first appearances there is nothing anachronistic or quaint about the renderings.... When subtle details coalesce, Lockhart's view onto the workers' lunch break ultimately suggests more than simply a moment of respite from a day's work; it reveals a pause taken from the immense mechanization of war to reclaim a modest sense of self-possession by partaking in simple comforts." (Artforum)"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Saint Louis
United States
Dimensions
Height: 30 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-936316-31-4 (9780936316314)
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Person
Sharon Lockhart is an artist who works in photography and film. Her work has been featured at major museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Zurich, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Her films have been shown at New Directors/New Films, the Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna International Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. She lives in Los Angeles.