GEORGE TONY STOLL - Monograph
Stoll will uninhibit you from photography, doing you a great service in that you will have gained a kind of virginity of the eye. The monograph devoted to Stoll by Dominique Baqué and Elisabeth Lebovici retraces ten years of photographic practice by a man who, thinking himself a painter in the '80s, chose to put himself on stand-by until the early '90s, letting the great wave of the return to painting (Italian Transvanguardia, European and American neo-expressionism) take hold and die. His return to artistic practice came when he took up small automatic cameras, equipped with flash, to bring to light pre-existing images, a repertoire of stains, shapes and indistinct masses, for, as Stoll declares, "my work takes its place 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 x 29 cm, 200 pages, very good condition
ISBN 2-84105-190-0
Stoll will uninhibit you from photography, doing you a great service in that you will have gained a kind of virginity of the eye. The monograph devoted to Stoll by Dominique Baqué and Elisabeth Lebovici retraces ten years of photographic practice by a man who, thinking himself a painter in the '80s, chose to put himself on stand-by until the early '90s, letting the great wave of the return to painting (Italian Transvanguardia, European and American neo-expressionism) take hold and die. His return to artistic practice came when he took up small automatic cameras, equipped with flash, to bring to light pre-existing images, a repertoire of stains, shapes and indistinct masses, for, as Stoll declares, "my work takes its place 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 x 29 cm, 200 pages, very good condition
ISBN 2-84105-190-0
Stoll will uninhibit you from photography, doing you a great service in that you will have gained a kind of virginity of the eye. The monograph devoted to Stoll by Dominique Baqué and Elisabeth Lebovici retraces ten years of photographic practice by a man who, thinking himself a painter in the '80s, chose to put himself on stand-by until the early '90s, letting the great wave of the return to painting (Italian Transvanguardia, European and American neo-expressionism) take hold and die. His return to artistic practice came when he took up small automatic cameras, equipped with flash, to bring to light pre-existing images, a repertoire of stains, shapes and indistinct masses, for, as Stoll declares, "my work takes its place 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 x 29 cm, 200 pages, very good condition
ISBN 2-84105-190-0
