- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (Feb 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0811834948
- ISBN-13: 978-0811834940
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 24 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 699 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Product Description
From Library Journal
Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition of the artist's work held at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City, this first book by the 2001 recipient of the prestigious International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Young Photographer includes a three-page introductory essay by the artist (with cultural critic Gadi Taub) and 91 full-color family portraits, self-portraits, and abstractions. The dated and captioned images cover a nine-year period in Carucci's life, from 1993 until 2001. While the works in this monograph focus on the personal life of the 31-year-old photographer, who was born and educated in Israel, they also feature broader themes, such as love, marriage, intimacy, and privacy. The photographs are disconcerting in their attempt to examine and elevate everyday, and often overtly sexual, material to a fine art. This first book belongs in specialized library collections covering contemporary photography, but given the predominantly nonscholarly and visual nature of this monograph, academic librarians with limited budgets may need to pass. Cheryl Ann Lajos, Free Library of Philadelphia
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Closer: Photographs by Elinor Carucci is the first monograph by this recipient of the prestigious International Center for Photography’s 2001 Infinity Award for Best Young Photographer. Carucci is renowned for sensuous portraits of her family and herself, and Closer reveals the breadth of her work, from the erotic to the ethereal-exposing an emotionally honest world flooded with color. Fragments of her life are revealed through 90 full-color family portraits, self-portraits, and artful abstractions, making Closer a daring portrayal of this up-and-coming artist’s intimate emotional geography.
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My mother was the first person I ever photographed, and I still take pictures of her obsessively. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
My mother was the first person I ever photographed, and I still take pictures of her obsessively. Read the first page
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simple yet powerful book,
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This review is from: Closer (Paperback)
this book's simply moving, it's shows with very simple direct photos a very deep look into the artist's life and her realtion to family, lover, husbend, freinds and her own body. it manage to creat the exsact right tention between personal and univesral, makeing you feel as if the people shot in the photos are both extrwamly indevidual and at the same time iconic - as if the most perosnal emotions we have are a part of something larger.someting that personaly intrest me is the sense of imaigrent in her photos showing very israely people and scenes combined beautifuly with that europian light and places. it's one of the most moving photography i have seen.
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Wonderful work!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Closer (Paperback)
This is a great book. The photographer managed to tell a beautiful story about the web of relationships in her life. I envy the simple and talented way she presents her life and the people she care for. I am sure that we will hear more about this raising star in the art of photography
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Palpable vulnerability,
By photogogue "iconophile" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Closer (Hardcover)
Technically splendid and affecting photography from a major new talent. Carucci brings a Nan Goldin-esque virtuosity to her chronicle of the intimate spheres of self and family.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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simple yet powerful book,
By A. Dan "simoril" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Closer (Paperback)
this book's simply moving, it's shows with very simple direct photos a very deep look into the artist's life and her realtion to family, lover, husbend, freinds and her own body. it manage to creat the exsact right tention between personal and univesral, makeing you feel as if the people shot in the photos are both extrwamly indevidual and at the same time iconic - as if the most perosnal emotions we have are a part of something larger.someting that personaly intrest me is the sense of imaigrent in her photos showing very israely people and scenes combined beautifuly with that europian light and places. it's one of the most moving photography i have seen. 9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful work!,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Closer (Paperback)
This is a great book. The photographer managed to tell a beautiful story about the web of relationships in her life. I envy the simple and talented way she presents her life and the people she care for. I am sure that we will hear more about this raising star in the art of photography
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