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Stoll will teach you to forget everything you thought you knew about photography, doing you a great favor in the process, as you will regain a kind of visual innocence. The monograph dedicated to him by Dominique Baqué and Elisabeth Lebovici traces a decade of photographic practice by an artist who, considering himself a painter in the 1980s, chose to put his career on hold until the early 1990s, allowing the great wave of the return to painting (Italian Transvanguardia, European and American Neo-Expressionism) that was then taking place to surge and subside. His return to artistic practice occurred when he took up small automatic cameras equipped with flash, using them to illuminate pre-existing images—a repertoire of indistinct patterns, forms, and masses—because, as Stoll states, “my work lies there; in the darkness of the eyelids.”
The book does not present Stoll's work chronologically, with photographs and video excerpts spanning the period from 1993 to 2004, but the coherence of the whole is striking.
Published by Éditions du Regard, 2005
22 cm 29 cm, 200 pages, in very good condition
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Stoll will teach you to forget everything you thought you knew about photography, doing you a great favor in the process, as you will regain a kind of visual innocence. The monograph dedicated to him by Dominique Baqué and Elisabeth Lebovici traces a decade of photographic practice by an artist who, considering himself a painter in the 1980s, chose to put his career on hold until the early 1990s, allowing the great wave of the return to painting (Italian Transvanguardia, European and American Neo-Expressionism) that was then taking place to surge and subside. His return to artistic practice occurred when he took up small automatic cameras equipped with flash, using them to illuminate pre-existing images—a repertoire of indistinct patterns, forms, and masses—because, as Stoll states, “my work lies there; in the darkness of the eyelids.”
The book does not present Stoll's work chronologically, with photographs and video excerpts spanning the period from 1993 to 2004, but the coherence of the whole is striking.
Published by Éditions du Regard, 2005
22 cm 29 cm, 200 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
