Swimmers
游泳者
ISBN: 9781915743053
出版商：MACK
出版日期：2023 年 5 月 1 日
语言：英语
页数：144
页面信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准
《游泳者》是拉里-苏丹本能、无意识的作品，充满了绘画和印象主义风格，充满了动作和姿态。这是一个创造性解放的时刻，它揭示了镜头背后的人和镜头前的人一样多，甚至更多"。——肖恩-奥哈根，观察家新评论
《游泳者》中的照片拍摄于 1978 年至 1982 年，是抒情、梦幻般的舞蹈，也是美国生活的记录。——纽约时报书评
我想做一些与众不同的事情，身体力行，在某种程度上，有点考虑不周......我拿着相机，在很多游泳池里潜入水下。然后拍了照片。
1978 年至 1982 年间，拉里-苏丹一改他以合作概念作品闻名的风格，在旧金山的公共泳池拍摄了人们学习游泳的照片。最初，苏尔坦从红十字会游泳手册中找到的黑白纪实照片中获得灵感，很快便开始探索创作身体、感官、身临其境和绘画性照片的冲动。由此产生的作品色彩饱和，通过作为第二镜头的水的扭曲折射，呈现出不可预知的形式和偶然的抽象。这一系列的作品常常很美，但又经常因其模棱两可而令人不安，它们营造出一种感官上的沉浸感，充满了流动和不确定的氛围，而苏丹正是被这种氛围所吸引。
本作品集展示了苏丹自己选择和展出的系列作品中的所有图片，并扩展到包括他在接触片上标记的其他图片，以及他可能从未查看过的档案中的其他精选图片。
"Painterly and impressionistic, filled with movement and gesture, Swimmers is Larry Sultan’s most instinctive and unselfconscious body of work. A creatively liberating moment that reveals as much, if not more, about the person behind the lens as those in front of it." Sean O'Hagan, The Observer New Review
"The photos in Swimmers, taken between 1978 and 1982, are lyrical, dreamlike dances, and also documents of American life." New York Times Book Review
‘I wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill-conceived… I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures.’
Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black-and-white documentary photograhs he found in a Red Cross swimming manual, Sultan soon began exploring an urge to create pictures that were physical, sensual, immersive, and painterly. The resulting work is saturated with colour and inflected by the unpredictable forms and chance abstractions which emerge through the distorted refractions of the water as a second lens. Often beautiful and regularly unsettling in their ambiguity, the series builds to create a feeling of sensory immersion alive with the fluid and uncertain atmospheres to which Sultan was drawn.
This collection presents all the pictures from the series Sultan himself chose and exhibited, and expands to include additional images he marked on contact sheets as well as further selections from his archive which he likely never even reviewed.
