Studio / Harry Watts.

London : Published by Black Box Press, [2010]

©2010

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm

BEIN Leclair iPL 1579: Original wrappers. Signed by the photographer and dated 2011. From the Indie Photobook Library/Larissa Leclair Collection. Accompanied by: Indie Photobook Library QR code tag.

"All images by Harry Watts, introduction by Aaron Schuman, design by Birch"--Colophon.

"The photographic studio is generally regarded as an invisible space - a non-place, distilled of reality, where photographers are presented with an opportunity to ‘make’, rather than ‘take’, photographs. At the centre of this stripped-back monochrome environment sits an isolated three-dimensional void that is exclusively intended to serve the two-dimensional image, where precise, polished, elaborate and imaginative worlds are conjured up and transformed into a single plane. In STUDIO, Harry Watts turns this environment inside out, allowing the camera itself to inhabit the void and explore its surrounding boundaries, where the means, mechanisms and ephemera of the photographic image - and the photographic imagination - reside. Remarkably, he discovers that upon closer examination the borders and tools so often used to define this space and generate sleek, idealized visions are themselves clunky, cramped and awkward. Painted cinderblocks, crumpled backdrops, crooked ladders, half-broken fans, snaking wires, crumbling styrofoam, and countless bits of gaffer, masking and packing tape encircle such sites, alluding to the hidden character and true nature of the studio itself"--Introduction.

English

January 16, 2018