Chris Verene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verene, Chris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verene family.

Photography of families.

Verene family--Pictorial works.

Galesburg (Ill.)--Pictorial works.

Galesburg (Ill.).

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 36 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, NM : Twin Palms Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

For the past thirteen years, young American artist Chris Verene has carefully documented the strange and yet oddly familiar world of his family and friends. Verene's lush color images reveal freakishly beautiful stories of simple daily joys and troubling family secrets. Curators, critics and museums from Atlanta to New York and Europe are exhibiting and discussing his moving portrayal of family, love, youth, and aging.

The geography of Chris Verene's color photography is primarily social though the landscape is always a presence. Whether he is following his relatives around the dilapidated environs of Galesburg, Illinois, or locked in a suburban bedroom with five members of his "Camera Club" photographing a half-dressed woman draped over a bed, Chris Verene innerves us with a vision of daily life at once bizarre and banal. His high key colors and composition occupy a terrain somewhere between William Eggleston and Nan Goldin. This will be the artist's first book.

ISBN:

0944092756

0944092764

OCLC:

45502240