JOKE
Talia Chetrit
MACK Books
English
Hardcover
128 pages
240 × 310 mm
2022
ISBN 9781913620721
The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a variety of visual languages. In JOKE, Chetrit brings together family photos, street photography, still lifes, selections from the artist’s teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators.
Referencing a wide range of photographic tropes and traditions, Chetrit studies the power dynamics between photographer and subject as they spar and collude. JOKE deals in high humour and deadly seriousness, plunging us into a world in which social roles are inverted, norms are examined, judgements of taste and value are suspended, and everything coalesces, dead and alive, true and false, sincere and affected.
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About the Artist
Talia Chetrit (b. 1980, Washington D.C.) is an American photographer. She is known for her photographic still lifes, nude portraiture and for the inclusion of references to the apparatus of photography in her work.
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About the Publisher
MACK Books are an art and photography publishing house based in London, working with established and emerging artists, writers and curators, and cultural institutions.
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