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Theatres of the real : Sarah Dobai, Annabel Elgar, Tom Hunter, Sarah Pickering, Nigel Shafran, Clare Strand, Mitra Tabrizian, Danny Treacy by Sarah Dobai; Jan Baetens; David Green; Joanna Lowry; Museum voor Fotografie (Antwerp, Belgium); PhotoWorks is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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111 pages : 24 cm "Theatres of the Real presents work by eight photographers Sarah Dobai, Annabel Elgar, Tom Hunter, Sarah Pickering, Nigel Shafran, Clare Strand, Mitra Tabrizian and Danny Treacy, who can be seen as extending and redefining a tradition of British documentary photography by engaging with a range of social issues or by simply recording aspects of our contemporary world. However, the work that they make does not conform to the conventional methods and style of documentary photography." "Many of these artists' works involve situations that have been staged for the camera: sets have been constructed, actors have been dressed in costumes, and narrative scenarios invented. Other works, however, conform to the conventions of 'straight' photography: they record pre-existing scenes without any kind of direct intervention by the photographer. However, what unites all of these photographs is a sense of theatricality. Ranging from melodramatic reconstructions to the small tales of everyday domestic life, these images - in their different ways - portray our contemporary world as a kind of stage set in which we as actors play out our individual and collective stories." "Straddlin

Author

Sarah Dobai; Jan Baetens; David Green; Joanna Lowry; Museum voor Fotografie (Antwerp, Belgium); PhotoWorks

Publisher

Brighton: Photoworks ; Antwerp: FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903796269

Subjects

Photography, Arts