Product Details
Hardcover
95 pages
powerHouse Books
Published 2007
Book Description
Over the last decade, internationally recognized artist Charlie White has created some of the most arresting and trenchant images in contemporary photography. Through an extensive process that entails casting actors, creating characters, and building sets to construct scenes both disturbing and familiar, White dissects the violence, desires, and social anxieties that trouble the American collective unconscious. In series such as In a Matter of Days (1999) and Understanding Joshua (2001), White created monsters that stand as surrogates for human fragility and the internal demons that haunt our experiences of self and other. In And Jeopardize the Integrity of the Hull (2003) White’s work began to critique photography’s role in popular culture by mimicking and heightening the veneer of the commercial image to reveal the tension below the gloss. White's most recent series, Everything is American (2006), reveals the violence-tinged eroticism of the American psyche through portraits of both historic and mythic figures. From assaulting scenes to meditative studies, White’s powerful, disturbing, and revelatory photographs create fiction to understand reality and reconsider history to critique the present—all in a delicious, candy-coated shell.
About the Author
Charlie White lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His photographs have been exhibited at institutions throughout the world, including the Center for Contemporary Art in Salamanca, Spain; Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen in Linz, Austria; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; and Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway. White is the author of three monographs.
Sally O’Reilly is a writer and lecturer based in London. She writes regularly for a number of UK-based publications, including Frieze, Modern Painters, Time Out, and The Financia Times, and has written numerous catalogue essays for international galleries. Her performative lectures are delivered at university fine art programmes around the UK.
Benjamin Weissman is the author of two books of short fiction, DEAR DEAD PERSON (Serpent’s Tail Publishing, LTD, 1994) and HEADLESS (Akashic Books, 2004). His writing has recently appeared in exhibition catalogues for Paul McCarthy and Yutaka Sone, and in The Believer, Black Clock, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Parkett, Powder, Soft Targets, and Werewolf Express, as well as the anthology A FICTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES WITH HUGE CHUNKS MISSING (Akashic Books, 2006). He hosts the New American Writing series at the UCLA Hammer Museum and teaches at Art Center College of Design. |
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