Adam Bartos

Darkroom

Fotobuchpreis 2012

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Darkroom charts the physical and psychic terrain of photographic printing rooms while conveying their transition fromthe realm of pure functionality into historical artifact. Indirect portraits of both producer and product, Bartos' workexplores the physical space linking artist to artwork and linking the tools of the medium to the signs of their use.As more darkrooms switch to digital printing or close shop altogether, we become more aware that the tangibleelements of darkroom printing may one day be lost. Bartos' recent large-format work documents and explores in equalmeasure the visual language and ethos of that analogue printing culture before it slips beyond our experience forever.The acrid odour of chemistry, an uncanny stillness hanging in damp air - Bartos records the descriptive aspects andspatial constraints of the darkroom but also visualizes the lab as a site of limitless creative potential, invested with asmuch aura as a photographic print. Heroic and humbling at the same time, these portraits speak to the individuality ofthe workspaces and their inhabitants but also to the shared architecture of all darkrooms. Bartos presents us with theperceptual tools to know the darkroom as it is today and to remember it one day as it will have been.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Steidl
• 1., Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Deutsch
• Abmessung: 370mm x 290mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 1304g
• ISBN-13: 9783869303321
• ISBN-10: 3869303328
• Artikelnr.: 33998156

Autorenporträt

Bartos, AdamAdam Bartos' photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and were included in the MoMA exhibition Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West. Monographs of his work include International Territory, KOSMOS, Yard Sale Photographs, and Boulevard, published by Steidldangin in 2005. He lives and works in New York.