Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and other Traveling

Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and other Traveling Troupes
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In her sympathetic pictures of contortionists, dwarves, ballroom dancers and wrestlers from small towns in Israel, Ukraine, Eastern Europe and England, Michal Chelbin offers a glimpse into worlds both strange and familiar. Her subjects--usually individuals on societyâ€™s margins--tend to be portrayed offstage, at home, on the street or in a park, and in a disarmingly direct engagement with the viewer: â€œMy aim is to record a scene where there is a mixture of direct information and enigmas and in which there are visual contrasts between young and old, large and small, normal and abnormal,â€ she writes. This sense of candid confrontation between subject and camera is particularly disarming when those subjects are prepubescent girls, whose bodies, as Chelbin puts it, â€œmight be still that of a child, [but] their gazes sometimes imply differently.â€ Chelbinâ€™s palette is intensely saturated with distinctive pinks, blues and greens, evoking a painterly atmosphere, even occasionally making explicit reference to art history. Though her influences are evident--most notably August Sander and Diane Arbus--the compelling photographs gathered in this first monograph have a unique visual and emotional impact.
Country USA
Brand Aperture
Manufacturer Aperture
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781597110563
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Aperture
Manufacturer	Aperture
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781597110563
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and other Traveling Troupes

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