Research Catalog

Title

After images / Amy Arbus.

Author

Arbus, Amy

Publication

Atglen, Pa. : Schiffer Publishing Ltd, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Fink, Larry, 1941-2023

Description

63 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

An after image is an impression of a vivid image retained by the eye after the stimulus has ceased. For her fifth book of portraits, Amy Arbus has borrowed ideas from iconic modernist paintings by artists including Picasso, Cezanne, Munch, Schiele, and Modigliani, and transferred their visceral energy and psychological intensity to live staged scenes to be photographed. In order to replicate the powerful effects of the original paintings, she painted costumes, props, and the models themselves. What has materialized is a series of hybrid images that challenges the thin line between painting and art photography. Chiaroscuro lighting and lush colors produce dark trompe l'oeil portraits in which the live models appear to be trying to escape the confines of the two-dimensional world that holds them captive. Amy Arbus has had twenty-two solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are featured in the permanent collections of The National Theater in Norway, The New York Public Library, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.0Exhibition: New York Design Center, NYC, USA (2.-29.4.2013).

Subjects

• Appropriation (Art)
• Portraits
• Arbus, Amy > Catalogs
• Portrait photography
• Staged photography
• Actors > Portraits

Genre/Form

Portraits.

Note

• "Amy Arbus speaks with Larry Fink"--Pages 6-7

Call Number

MFW+ 16-4022

ISBN

• 0764344552
• 9780764344558

LCCN

2013930630

OCLC

841940848

Author

Arbus, Amy, photographer.

Title

After images / Amy Arbus.

Publisher

Atglen, Pa. : Schiffer Publishing Ltd, [2013]

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Signed by the artist.

Added Author

Fink, Larry, 1941-2023, interviewer.

Research Call Number

MFW+ 16-4022