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Living In The New Rome
Ari Marcopoulos
TBW Books
English
Softcover
38 pages
170 x 125 mm
2006
ISBN 1110000144705
Ari continues the notion of family by turning his attention to his immediate surroundings. This includes the world of his two sons, who using blankets to create three-dimensional landscapes of Lego figures and battle scenes create a microcosm of domestic life, which parallels the world studied in his past work with members of the skateboarding community. This collection of photos reveals layers of resemblance between his immediate family and those of the outside world, both wear their physical scars as things of pride, battle wounds.
About the Artist
A photographer and filmmaker who gravitates toward elusive subcultures, Ari Marcopoulos photographs objects and cultures that pique his interest, such as sneakers with wide laces from New York’s 1980s hip-hop scene. Creating images with anthropological and ethnographic undertones, Marcopoulos has said that most of his photographs arise “through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves.” Rather than romanticise his subjects, he depicts them in a straightforward manner that reveals their beauty and anxieties. Working as an assistant to Andy Warhol after emigrating to the United States, Marcopoulos favours analog film for its slowness and for the time it asks of the viewer. Most recently, he has begun to explore high-contrast landscape photography that conjures a vague and fleeting sense of familiarity.
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About the Publisher
TBW Books is an independent photography book publishing company founded in 2006 by Paul Schiek.
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