THE STAGE (Special Edition) - Donigan Cumming
For over thirty years, Donigan Cumming (1947-) has been exploring, with disturbing results, the social and ethical implications of the observational image through an "improvised community" of seemingly marginal Montreal characters.
The Stage, published in 1991 by Maquam Press, is one of his most significant works. It includes photographs published in earlier editions, Reality and Motive in Documentary Photography (1986) and The Mirror, The Hammer and The Stage (1990). Rather than simply documenting his subjects, Cumming collaborates with them here, carefully orchestrating their appearance and posture in each photograph, emphasizing their more eccentric qualities to a degree that has earned him comparisons with Diane Arbus. Weaving a path between theatricality and reality, Donigan Cumming was both celebrated and criticized for his closeness to his subjects. For him, life is a stage, and The Stage is now acclaimed as a classic.
Includes an essay by journalist Robert Enright.
Published by Maquam Press, 1991, an exceptional signed copy with a handwritten note by the author.
18.4 cm x 24.1 cm, 256 pages, good condition
ISBN 0969554001
For over thirty years, Donigan Cumming (1947-) has been exploring, with disturbing results, the social and ethical implications of the observational image through an "improvised community" of seemingly marginal Montreal characters.
The Stage, published in 1991 by Maquam Press, is one of his most significant works. It includes photographs published in earlier editions, Reality and Motive in Documentary Photography (1986) and The Mirror, The Hammer and The Stage (1990). Rather than simply documenting his subjects, Cumming collaborates with them here, carefully orchestrating their appearance and posture in each photograph, emphasizing their more eccentric qualities to a degree that has earned him comparisons with Diane Arbus. Weaving a path between theatricality and reality, Donigan Cumming was both celebrated and criticized for his closeness to his subjects. For him, life is a stage, and The Stage is now acclaimed as a classic.
Includes an essay by journalist Robert Enright.
Published by Maquam Press, 1991, an exceptional signed copy with a handwritten note by the author.
18.4 cm x 24.1 cm, 256 pages, good condition
ISBN 0969554001
For over thirty years, Donigan Cumming (1947-) has been exploring, with disturbing results, the social and ethical implications of the observational image through an "improvised community" of seemingly marginal Montreal characters.
The Stage, published in 1991 by Maquam Press, is one of his most significant works. It includes photographs published in earlier editions, Reality and Motive in Documentary Photography (1986) and The Mirror, The Hammer and The Stage (1990). Rather than simply documenting his subjects, Cumming collaborates with them here, carefully orchestrating their appearance and posture in each photograph, emphasizing their more eccentric qualities to a degree that has earned him comparisons with Diane Arbus. Weaving a path between theatricality and reality, Donigan Cumming was both celebrated and criticized for his closeness to his subjects. For him, life is a stage, and The Stage is now acclaimed as a classic.
Includes an essay by journalist Robert Enright.
Published by Maquam Press, 1991, an exceptional signed copy with a handwritten note by the author.
18.4 cm x 24.1 cm, 256 pages, good condition
ISBN 0969554001
