Double Exposures

Performance as Photography, Photography as Performance

By: Manuel Vason

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Hardcover | 15 February 2015 | Edition Number 1

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200 Pages

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A new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the United Kingdom, Double Exposures brings together newly commissioned images and essays to explore new ways of bridging performance and photography. Ten years after Vasonâs first book, Exposures, this ambitious project draws into sharp focus the body, the diptych, documentation, the photobook, identity, mediation, collaborative practices, and the relationship between photography and performance. With essays by leading critics, academics, and practitioners, this collection solidifies Vasonâs centrality to the photography of performance. Copublished with the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). Published with the support of Arts Council England.

Industry Reviews

'Manuel Vason is to Performance Art what Robert Capa is to war photography.'

-- Franko B, artist

'Manuel Vason's images exist somewhere between portraiture, performance documentation, and documentary - or perhaps, his images are fashion shots, but the bodies are clothed in performance.'

-- Tracy Warr, independent curator, editor of The Artist's Body

'Manuel Vason's startling and stylised images, powerfully reproduced in Encounters, violently force bodily abjection into the arena of the sublime. Not since the era of Caravaggio and Bernini has pain been so exquisitely and beautifully rendered - here, through Vason's capacity to connect, via the red-hot wire of aesthetic reduction, to the bodies that wield and convey it.'

-- Amelia Jones

'Photography stages what it records; and subjects perform on that stage. In this age of the complicit auto-branding of the 'Selfie', it's a relief to be reminded that the self and the camera are less knowable than we might think. In this book Manual Vason's collaborative photographs along with a range of nimble writers reopen for us all the uncertainties and possibilities, the trapdoors and escape hatches that make the self and the camera such wild companions.'

-- David Campany, writer, curator and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London

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