Nadav Kander : Beauty's Nothing

by Mack, Micheal

• ISBN13: 9781892041401
• ISBN10: 1892041405
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Pub Group West

Summary

Nadav Kander creates unfailingly beautiful photographs with the formal precision of a master photographer. But beauty is the beguiling lure for Kander's disconcerting explorations into representation through genre as diverse as portraiture, landscape, and still life. He employs the seductive charm of aestheticism to expose our inconsistent response to the female nude, to probe questions of morality and desire in a series on Cuban prostitutes, and to manifest the fragile imbalances of the American landscape with its endlessly repeating artifice at the edge of vast emptiness.

The book is composed of chapters of images, interleaved with short stories, poems, and essays, each responding to a particular image or section. Each sequence elaborates a narrative, at times driven by the commissioned texts and often arising from the friction between two dissociated images.

Nadav Kander was born in Israel in 1961 and was raised in South Africa. In 1982 he moved to London, where in 1986 he set up his first studio. Kander has received international critical acclaim for hi

Table of Contents

Untitled	p. 39
Deluge	p. 40
Stomp on Ants	p. 42
The Secret Life of the Love Song	p. 51
All-American Girl	p. 53
My America	p. 142
Off the Greyhound	p. 144
Beauty's Nothing	p. 189
Index of Photographs	p. 190
Acknowledgments	p. 191
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