Bling Bling Baby! Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2016/2017. Hardcover, 192 pp., 108 color illustrations, embossed linen binding, silver-edged pages.
Catalog to the exhibition at NRW Forum, DĂĽsseldorf. Exhibition: 19.11.2016 - 15.01. 2017 NRW-Forum, DĂĽsseldorf and further venues.
Language: English
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Camp, kitsch, spectacle: bling bling.
A nice, campy book, curated by Nadine Barth celebrating artificiality, kitsch, opulence, and spectacle. With flaming flowers, lollipop hipsters, glittering facades, wallpaper Alps, and color so saturated it almost dazzles, Bling Bling Baby! rounds up over thirty artists who go full out on fashion, portraiture, still life, and staged fantasy.
Whether through glam fashion, nature poetry, ironic mise-en-scène, or the pop portrait, the pictures in this book aim for trivial motifs with wit and flashing color.
Designed as much to be an object of desire as its imagery, with silver edging and embossed linen, the book is both a photography exhibition catalog and a manifesto of the superficial turned sublime. For collectors and lovers of bold, sensory visual culture, this is a must-have anthology.
Photographers featured:
Miles Aldridge, Olivo Barbieri, Pierre et Gilles, Anatol Kotte, Bela Borsodi, Carolin Saage, Christto & Andrew, Daniel Sannwald, David LaChapelle, Esther Haase, Hassan Hajjaj, Inka & Niclas, Izima Kaoru, Jason McGlade, Kourtney Roy, Mark Kimber, Markus Henttonen, Mariano Vivanco, Martin Schoeller, Matt Henry, Maxime Ballesteros, Mike Schreiber, Stefano Cerio, Suresh Nataraja, Pierre Winther, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rankin, Ruud van Empel, Sarah Illenberger, Sarah Malakoff, Wing Shya.
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