1000 faces / 0 faces / 1 face
Frank Montero , Thomas Ruff , Cindy Sherman1000 faces / 0 faces / 1 face
Frank Montero , Thomas Ruff , Cindy ShermanPublisher | La Fabrica Fundación Telefónica, 2011 |
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Edition | Hardcover , 156 Pages |
Publisher's description
1000 Faces/0 Faces/One Face unites two great contemporary artists who have interrogated constructions of identity with an entirely unknown late-nineteenth-century photographer named Frank Montero. Its thesis runs as follows: in Cindy Sherman’s manipulations of generic casting we encounter a face that produces all faces; in Thomas Ruff’s proliferating but depersonalized portraits, we all encounter all faces reduced to a zero degree; and in Montero, we encounter a face that plays the role of itself, throughout the inscriptions wrought upon it by time. Montero’s work, seemingly made without artistic intentions or ambitions, and published here for the first time, provides a sort of Rembrandt-like counterpoint to the identity arguments made by Ruff and Sherman’s work, and alongside them makes for the most fascinating panorama of the absolute constructedness of the photographic portrait and the eerie artifice of identity itself.
Specifications
Book title | 1000 faces / 0 faces / 1 face |
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Photographer | Frank Montero Thomas Ruff Cindy Sherman |
ISBN 10 | 8415303157 / 84-15303-15-7 |
ISBN 13 | 9788415303152 / 978-84-15303-15-2 |
Publisher | La Fabrica Fundación Telefónica |
Publish date | Oct 2011 |
Publish year | 2011 |
Book format | Hardcover |
Language | English, Spanish |
Pages | 156 Pages |
Dimensions | 20,25 x 25,5 cm / 8 x 10 inches |
Weight | 900 g |
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