Photographe sud-africain d'origine américaine né en 1950, Roger Ballen construit une oeuvre qui dépasse le point de vue documentaire qu'elle semblait tout d'abord adopter.

Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen - Asylum of the birds

Roger the Rat

36 études photographiques réalisées par Ballen entre 1998 et 2002, reproduites sur un luxueux papier brillant.

Fact or Fiction

Limited to 100 copies (+ 5 artist's copies) numbered 1-100. Includes a print of 'Candlelight' (2014), signed and numbered by Roger Ballen.

Ballenesque (collector's edition): roger ballen: a retrospective

Roger Ballen (b. 1950) is one of the most important and original art photographers working today. Best known for his probing, often challenging images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography, he has achieved global recognition with a series of startling monographs and exhibitions spanning some five decades. The artist's only comprehensive retrospective, Ballenesque takes the reader on a visual, chronological tour of the photographer's entire oeuvre. This revised, compact edition has been brought fully up-to-date, and includes a new chapter that presents previously unpublished work from the artist's recent adoption of colour photography. At the heart of the book is Ballen's own exploration of his style - of those particular qualities that make his work so compellingly his own. Featuring reflective and engaging texts by Ballen himself, the book offers a distinctly personal account of the photographer's career to date, including rare and privileged insights into Ballen's photographic practice and the major influences that have helped shape his world view. Each of the key stages in Ballen's creative joumey is explored, from his first serious use of a camera in the late 1960s to the expansion of his artistic vision in Outland (2001), and from the refinement of his unique aesthetic in the first decades of the 21st century to his dramatic return to pastel drawing during the Covid-19 pandemic - ajoumey that, for Ballen, has been both an outward and an inward exploration of the self. With an introduction by cultural theorist and critic Robert J. C. Young, Ballenesque provides not only an entirely new way of seeing Ballen's work for those already familiar with his career, but also a comprehensive introduction for those encountering his photographs for the first time.

Ballenesque Roger Ballen: A Retrospective

The seminal work from photographer and artist Roger Ballen, Outland is now available again in an expanded edition with more than 50 never-before-seen images and new commentary from the artist himself. The culmination of nearly 20 years of work, Outland marked Ballen's move from documentary photography into the realms of fiction and propelled him into the international spotlight. His black-and-white photographs of South Africans on the fringes of society are powerful psychological studies: disturbing, exciting and impossible to forget.

Roger Ballen

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