Close up, Proximity and Defamiliarisation in Art, Film and Photography

A catalogue published to accompany the exhibition at Fruitmarket, this book Includes classic works by artists such as Karl Blossfeldt, Salvador Dali and Man Ray, alongside contemporary work by Mel Bochner, Mona Hatoum, Mike Kelley and Simon Starling among many others. Disorienting and unsettling, strangely beautiful and completely compelling, the extraordinary visual and conceptual power of the close-up is revealed in this book, which reproduces and discusses many great works of art ranging from experiments in nineteenth-century microscopy through to avant-garde film and photography to conceptual work and the use of close-up photography and film in contemporary art.  Introduction by Dr Fiona Bradley, Director of Fruitmarket with essays by Dawn Ades, and Simon Baker.

This was a limited print run.

Authors: Dawn Ades, Simon Baker

Published in 2008

Isbn: 9780947912598

Dimensions: 250 x 200 x 12 mm

112 pages