Fractured

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Jeremy Kost's last monograph, It's Always Darkest before Dawn, established him as a master of the Polaroid. His body of work is at once image, performative act and genre-bending fu sion of subject, environment and artistic technique. Born of one of the fortuitous mistakes in the artist's studio that leads to incredible breakthroughs--a camera malfunction-- Kost's latest series consists of multiple-exposure Polaroids of young, stereotypically beautiful men--a subject and technique that Kost has been investigating for nearly a decade. These mesmerizing, layered Polaroid images are collected in Fractured, along with contextualizing and descriptive text from Franklin Sirmans, LACMA Curator of Contemporary Art. Made throughout 2013, only a fraction of the work has been seen outside of the studio before the publication of this book. Presenting dreamlike, fractured narratives collapsed into a single Polaroid frame, each image takes the viewer to an intimate place filled with broken dreams and unrequited desire, while celebrating man's beauty and identity. Whether cropped to show luminous details or simply floated on the page, each photograph represents a tangible, beautiful moment layered in mystery. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Damiani Release Date: October 31, 2014 Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8862083637 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8862083638 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.78 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 0.9 x 12 inches Show more