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Index Cards

Author : Moyra Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811229513

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An essential selection of Moyra Davey's sly, surprising, and brilliant essays

Mother Reader

Author : Moyra Davey
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781609801021

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Mother Reader by Moyra Davey Pdf

The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering. Many of the writers articulate difficult and socially unsanctioned maternal anger and ambivalence. In Mother Reader, motherhood is scrutinized for all its painful and illuminating subtleties, and addressed with unconventional wisdom and candor. What emerges is a sense of a community of writers speaking to and about each other out of a common experience, and a compilation of extraordinary literature never before assembled in a single volume.

The Shabbiness of Beauty

Author : Moyra Davey,Eileen Myles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 1913620204

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The Shabbiness of Beauty by Moyra Davey,Eileen Myles Pdf

The Shabbiness of Beauty' is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujar's archives and emerged mainly with little-known, scarcely seen images. In response to these, Davey created her own images that draw out an idiosyncratic selection of shared subjects. Side by side, the powerfully composed images admire, tease, and enhance one another in the manner of fierce friends, forming a visual exploration of physicality and sexuality that crackles with wit, tenderness, and perspicacity. Spiritually anchored in New York City, even as they range out to rural corners of Quebec and Pennsylvania, these images crystallise tensions between city and country, human and animal. Nudes pose with unruly chickens; human bodies are abstracted toward topography; seascapes and urban landscapes share the same tremulous plasticity. These continuities are punctuated by stark differences of approach: Davey's self-aware postmodernism against Hujar's humanism and embrace of darkroom manipulation. The rich dialogue between these photographs is personal and angular, ultimately offering an illuminating reintroduction to each celebrated artist through communion with the other's work.--

The Problem of Reading

Author : Moyra Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Books in art
ISBN : 0974260509

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Moyra Davey

Author : Moyra Davey,Alison Strayer
Publisher : Ica, University of Pennsylvania/Museum Moderner Kunst/Dancing Foxes Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 0985337729

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Moyra Davey by Moyra Davey,Alison Strayer Pdf

In the oeuvre of New York artist Moyra Davey (born 1958), literature and writing are as significant as photography, film, and video. In her latest text, Burn the Diaries. Davey considers the work of French playwright and political activist Jean Genet (1910-1986), among other texts, while examining fugitive moments from her own life. An essay by her childhood friend and reading companion Alison Strayer, written in response, reflects on Daveys themes. The publication is part of a group of new works; that includes photographs, a film, and an installation of her signature mailers - and can be read both as an artist's book and a catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Mumok, Vienna, and the ICA in 2014. Exhibition: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, USA (17.9-28.12.2014).

Long Life Cool White

Author : Moyra Davey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0300136463

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Photographer Moyra Davey takes quiet but ravishing photographs of typically overlooked and banal objects. Newspapers, dust, books, money, empty bottles, and the things on top of refrigerators all figure in series of pictures that bring viewers into a state of increased sensitivity to their everyday lives. Long Life Cool White features forty-five of the artist’s photographs from the past two decades. Davey’s relationship to such traditions as street and conceptual photography and French surrealism can be seen throughout these pages. Noted scholar Helen Molesworth examines the domestic content of Davey’s work as well as Davey’s burgeoning career as a writer. The book also includes Davey’s insightful essay “Notes on Photography and Accident,” in which she discusses the themes of chance, death, and the poetic that occur in the writings of three major theorists of photography: Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and Susan Sontag.

Moyra Davey

Author : Moyra Davey,Ben Lerner,Brian Sholis
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3958295673

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Moyra Davey by Moyra Davey,Ben Lerner,Brian Sholis Pdf

From early portraits of her five sisters, to photos taken above bookshelves and under beds, and later series on the New York City subway, Moyra Davey has spent four decades with a practice that comprises photography, film and writing. This book surveys Davey's work, bringing together her photos and film-stills; her writings on photography, memory, art and historical figures; alongside a suite of new essays and interviews. Davey examines the texture of life: defaced currency, empty whiskey bottles, the dust under a record player's needle. She also acknowledges that photos can be mementos, and for some time has printed her images as a kind of correspondence, sending them through the mail; when unfolded, they bear the creases and stamps of transit. Davey's films and essays are characterized by a similar intimacy, evinced by the artist's own peripatetic, literary mind. These are some of the figures that haunt her imagery: Walter Benjamin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Genet and Chantal Ackerman. As with her photographic accumulations of fragments, Davey approaches these touchstones indirectly, drawing from their letters, journals and lesser celebrated works to understand how they committed to living creative lives. I want to make some photographs, but I want them to take seed in words. Moyra Davey Co-published with Scotiabank Photography Award, Toronto.

Moyra Davey

Author : Moyra Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822038152120

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Photographs distributed in order of their appearance within the texts interrupt the various writers' contributions. Furthermore, for Davey's own essay, and for the interview, the artist chose to reproduce her photographic "Mailers", a unique series and format of work that Davey likes to refer to simply as "mail art". -- Publisher Description.

The Wet and the Dry

Author : Moyra Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 291825245X

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The Wet and the Dry by Moyra Davey Pdf

"Moyra Davey's practice of photography is closely connected to the history and the experience of reading. In The Wet and the Dry, autobiography and considerations on the medium mixes with the lives of Goethe, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Shelleys. This text was also the basis for Davey's acclaimed video work The Goddesses." -- http://castillocorrales.fr/the-wet-and-the-dry, [accessed 29/9/2023].

Two Serious Ladies

Author : Jane Bowles
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147462040X

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'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' Tennessee Williams'The book I give as a gift . . . It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit' Sheila Heti'A modern legend . . . A very funny writer' Truman Capote'Profoundly witty, genuinely unusual in its apprehensions, and bracingly, humanely true' Claire MessudI am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. it's terrible.Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, resides in her house and tries not to be unhappy.Mrs Copperfield, an anxious, dutiful married woman, has a great fear of drowning, of lifts, of intruders in the night. Two serious ladies, nothing is natural for them and anything is possible.For Mrs Copperfield - a trip to Panama, where she abandons her husband for love of a local prostitute. For Miss Goering - a move to a squalid little house on an island and a series of sordid encounters with strangers. Both go to pieces -and both realise this is something they've wanted to do for years.With an introduction by Naoise DolanA W&N Essential

Paul's Book

Author : Collier Schorr
Publisher : Mack
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Male models
ISBN : 1912339560

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Collier Schorr met Paul Hameline, a young French artist and model, in New York in 2015. A friend of friend, he came to her home for a "go-see", which is when a photographer gets to see how a model looks in front of the camera. Paul's family lives in the Marais section of Paris around the corner from the hotel Collier stays at while in Paris, so they began to meet and to make a project that lasted two years in which Collier would visit Paul at his parents' house and take pictures and talk. The idea was for Paul and Collier to experience photography as a social space, a conversation in which his body and her eyes could try and understand each other's fascinations and fantasies. Many of the pictures were published in 'Re Edition' magazine. 'Paul's Book' expands that magazine story to form a larger piece about the way in which a photographer and model can search for some greater revelations with the simplest movements and various states of undress. --

Photo-poetics

Author : Jennifer Blessing
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Photography
ISBN : 089207521X

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Emerging photographers working in a contemporary art context This catalogue presents an important new trend in contemporary photography, offering an opportunity to define the concerns of a younger generation of artists and contextualize them within the history of art and culture. Drawing on the legacies of conceptual and commercial photography, these artists pursue a largely studio-based approach to still-life photography that centers on the representation of objects, often printed matter such as books, magazines and record covers. The result is images imbued with poetic and evocative personal significance--a sort of displaced self-portraiture--that resonate with larger cultural and historical meanings. Driven by a deep interest in the medium of photography, these artists investigate the nature, laws and magic of film photography at the moment of its disappearance in our digital age. They attempt to rematerialize the photograph through meticulous printing, using film and other disappearing photo technologies, and by creating photo-sculptures and installations. Artists include Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag and Sara VanDerBeek.

Beyond Caring

Author : Paul Graham,David Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Books
ISBN : 1935004166

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Paul Graham's Beyond Caring published in 1986 is now considered one of the key works from Britain's wave of "New Color" photography that was gaining momentum in the 1980s. While commissioned to present his view of "Britain in 1984," Graham turned his attention towards the waiting rooms, queues and poor conditions of overburdened Social Security and Unemployment offices across the United Kingdom. Photographing surreptitiously, his camera is both witness and protagonist within a bureaucratic system that speaks to the humiliation and indignity aimed towards the most vulnerable end of society. Books on Books #9 presents every page spread of Graham's controversial book along with a contemporary essay by writer and curator David Chandler.--Publisher.

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

Author : Jane Simon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000954388

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The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography by Jane Simon Pdf

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical. Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form, artists from around the globe are examined, including Rinko Kawauchi, Catherine Opie, Dayanita Singh, Moyra Davey, and Elina Brotherus, who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors, domestic objects, and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures, this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors, public and private, and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory, art history, and visual studies.

Lateness and Longing

Author : George Baker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226035116

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"Lateness and Longing explores the ongoing nostalgia and cultural longing for traditional photography--the kind that captures a fleeting moment in somebody's life in emulsion and lives on long after that person is gone. With digital innovations, many scholars are apt to declare traditional photography "dead," not just in terms of the documentary and emotional functions it has served but in its materiality as well. But the analog has never gone away, Baker argues, rooted as it is in our understanding of time, history, home, mortality. This book examines the renewed curiosity about the material photograph through the work of four contemporary artists, all women: Tacita Dean, Moyra Davey, Zoe Leonard, and Sharon Lockhart. Baker draws on their practices to build a meditation on photography and its kin as aesthetic instruments for reflection, loss, nostalgia, desire, history, and "lateness.""--