PIA - Christopher Anderson
Christopher Anderson's first child, Atlas, was born in 2008. He began photographing this experience in a completely organic and naive way. It was the natural action of a new father trying to stop time and not let a single second of the experience pass. As a photographer, he had never photographed his own personal life. It never occurred to him that these photographs would be part of his "work". They were external to what he considered his photography. He had been making these photographs for about two years when Christopher Anderson realized that these photographs were, in fact, his life's work, and that everything he had done up to that point was preparation for making these images.
This series became the book, SON, published in 2012 that depicts a moment in time in Williamsburg Brooklyn, after 911 and the economic crash of 2008 when artist lofts still made up the community before luxury condos overwhelmed the landscape.
Pia could be called the spiritual sequel to this book. But this time, it marks a new era and a search for hope in the Trump / COVID19 reality. This time, Anderson's daughter Pia is the protagonist and muse, and the backdrop is her French family's return to Paris (Anderson became a naturalized French citizen in 2018).
"The images depict a father-daughter relationship as well as a photographer-subject collaboration as Pia takes control of her character. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also a declaration of hope that guides the photographs." - Christopher Anderson
Published by Stanley/Barker, 2020
21.5 cm x 25.5 cm, 160 pages, new
ISBN 9781913288150
Christopher Anderson's first child, Atlas, was born in 2008. He began photographing this experience in a completely organic and naive way. It was the natural action of a new father trying to stop time and not let a single second of the experience pass. As a photographer, he had never photographed his own personal life. It never occurred to him that these photographs would be part of his "work". They were external to what he considered his photography. He had been making these photographs for about two years when Christopher Anderson realized that these photographs were, in fact, his life's work, and that everything he had done up to that point was preparation for making these images.
This series became the book, SON, published in 2012 that depicts a moment in time in Williamsburg Brooklyn, after 911 and the economic crash of 2008 when artist lofts still made up the community before luxury condos overwhelmed the landscape.
Pia could be called the spiritual sequel to this book. But this time, it marks a new era and a search for hope in the Trump / COVID19 reality. This time, Anderson's daughter Pia is the protagonist and muse, and the backdrop is her French family's return to Paris (Anderson became a naturalized French citizen in 2018).
"The images depict a father-daughter relationship as well as a photographer-subject collaboration as Pia takes control of her character. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also a declaration of hope that guides the photographs." - Christopher Anderson
Published by Stanley/Barker, 2020
21.5 cm x 25.5 cm, 160 pages, new
ISBN 9781913288150
Christopher Anderson's first child, Atlas, was born in 2008. He began photographing this experience in a completely organic and naive way. It was the natural action of a new father trying to stop time and not let a single second of the experience pass. As a photographer, he had never photographed his own personal life. It never occurred to him that these photographs would be part of his "work". They were external to what he considered his photography. He had been making these photographs for about two years when Christopher Anderson realized that these photographs were, in fact, his life's work, and that everything he had done up to that point was preparation for making these images.
This series became the book, SON, published in 2012 that depicts a moment in time in Williamsburg Brooklyn, after 911 and the economic crash of 2008 when artist lofts still made up the community before luxury condos overwhelmed the landscape.
Pia could be called the spiritual sequel to this book. But this time, it marks a new era and a search for hope in the Trump / COVID19 reality. This time, Anderson's daughter Pia is the protagonist and muse, and the backdrop is her French family's return to Paris (Anderson became a naturalized French citizen in 2018).
"The images depict a father-daughter relationship as well as a photographer-subject collaboration as Pia takes control of her character. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also a declaration of hope that guides the photographs." - Christopher Anderson
Published by Stanley/Barker, 2020
21.5 cm x 25.5 cm, 160 pages, new
ISBN 9781913288150
