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245 00 $aTheatres of the real /$cSarah Dobai [and others] ; essays by Jan Baetens, David Green, Joanna Lowry.
260 $aBrighton :$bPhotoworks ;$aAntwerp :$bFotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen,$c2009.
300 $a111 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c24 cm
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500 $aPublished in association with the University of Brighton.
500 $aPublished to coincide with the exhibition 'Theatres of the real' first exhibited at FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, 19 June-13 Sept. 2009.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"Theatres of the Real presents work by eight photographers Sarah Dobai, Annabel Elgar, Tom Hunter, Sarah Pickering, Nigel Shafran, Clare Strand, Mitra Tabrizian and Danny Treacy, who can be seen as extending and redefining a tradition of British documentary photography by engaging with a range of social issues or by simply recording aspects of our contemporary world. However, the work that they make does not conform to the conventional methods and style of documentary photography." "Many of these artists' works involve situations that have been staged for the camera: sets have been constructed, actors have been dressed in costumes, and narrative scenarios invented. Other works, however, conform to the conventions of 'straight' photography: they record pre-existing scenes without any kind of direct intervention by the photographer. However, what unites all of these photographs is a sense of theatricality. Ranging from melodramatic reconstructions to the small tales of everyday domestic life, these images - in their different ways - portray our contemporary world as a kind of stage set in which we as actors play out our individual and collective stories." "Straddling the boundaries between fact and fiction, these images create a hallucinatory vision of contemporary Britain. This is a Britain that is framed by the gleaming architectures of global corporate business, on one side, and by the neglected streets and hinterlands of its towns and cities, on the other. These are also places that are peopled by social types that we recognize: alienated adolescents, working men, secretaries, city bankers, the down and out. But these photographers have recognized the imaginary power of such scenarios and characters and reconstructed them for us with an irony that is acute and subtle. Through a blurring of the real and the imaginary they offer us a vision of contemporary Britain that is both profound and comical; a black comedy in which bankers throw themselves to their solitary deaths off city buildings, where the police prepare for social insurgency in artificial urban environments, and where mundane kitchen sink scenarios compete with the strange plasticized interiors of offices and shopping malls." "Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the Foto Musemn Provincie Antwerpen this book contains reproductions of many of the photographs in the exhibition and other works by the artists, together with essays by Joanna Lowry, David Green (both of the University of Brighton) and Jan Baetens (Universityof Leuven, Belgium)." --Book Jacket.
600 14 $aDobai, Sarah.
600 14 $aElgar, Annabel,$d1971-
600 14 $aHunter, Tom,$d1965-
600 14 $aPickering, Sarah,$d1972-
600 14 $aShafran, Nigel,$d1964-
600 14 $aStrand, Clare,$d1973-
600 14 $aTabrizian, Mitra,$d1959-
600 14 $aTreacy, Danny,$d1975-
650 0 $aPhotography, Artistic$vExhibitions.
650 0 $aPhotography$zGreat Britain$xExhibitions.
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655 7 $aExhibition catalogs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01424028
655 4 $aExhibition catalogues.
700 1 $aDobai, Sarah,$d1965-
700 1 $aBaetens, Jan.
700 1 $aGreen, David,$d1953 May 23-
700 1 $aLowry, Joanna.
710 2 $aMuseum voor Fotografie (Antwerp, Belgium)
710 2 $aPhotoWorks.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tTheatres of the real.$dBrighton : Photoworks, Antwerp : FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, 2009$w(OCoLC)754688027
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