Booth, Alvin.
Corpus. Beyond the body. Introduction by Charlotte Cotton. Zürich, New
York, Edition Stemmle (1999). 4°. [59] Bl. mit 85 Tafeln in Sepia. OPbd.
mit illustr. OU.
Erste Ausgabe. – Mit eigenhändiger
Widmung von A. Booth auf dem Vortitel. – „The warmth and diversity of
the tonal range of Booth’s images hint at their relationship with
photography of the nineteenth century. The soft, textural beauty of
photography – the very quality that defined much early photographic
practice – is central to this contemporary work. Photography’s role in
intimate social life, which developed through the nineteenth century, is
similarly called to mind. The ecstatic slaves of Booth’s images, bound
and kneeling, have the sensibility of a Victorian melodrama. The
miniature, secretive series of images entitled ‘Small Collectors’
contain the illicit ambience of pornographic daguerreotypes of the 1850s
or French postcards of voluptuous femininity from later in the
nineteenth century. The colours of these photographs create a nostalgic
feel that heightens our sense of past events and sensibilities. These
are the peek-a-boo spectacles of the fin de siecle. … These images, with
their vocabulary drawn from photography’s history, are made
contemporary by the vibrancy of the human forms. The dynamics of the
studio performance are ever present in Booth’s photographs. The tactile
qualities of skin and motion create the immediacy , the sense of the
moment, that resonates through these vibrant photographs“ (C. Cotton). –
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