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Poolscapes brings together two connected bodies of work-"The Pool" (2002-05) and "Poolscapes" (2009-12)-focused on the motif of the swimming pool and realized over the course of ten years. Presenting public pools in urban and natural environments throughout Europe and private pools in the US in two distinct sections, the book is arranged chronologically and shows an evolution in tone and depth, from the real to the imagined, from the photographic to the painterly. Poolscapes opens with the "The Pool" series which invites us into a sun-bleached public pool at midday, evocative of playful, mundane childhood memories and the universal experience of leisure and bathing. Gradually these geometric lines and familiar architectural structures with their social and descriptive references give way to the abstract, often blurred shapes and colors of the "Poolscapes" pictures that oscillate between representation and abstraction. Here the pool becomes a metaphor, a mirror whose surface reflects the surrounding world but is also a gate into a submerged realm where bathers are distorted and fragmented-"murky waters" that reveal the unconscious and darker connotations of the pool. Laval's photographs rely on casual collisions and are at once vibrant, witty and spontaneous. Recording the world but transforming it at the same time, they find an extreme beauty in the banal and, by the same token, celebrate life and its more idle pleasures. Tim Clark for Next Level, 2006

About the Author :
Born in 1971 in Meudon outside Paris, Karine Laval today lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Palm Springs Art Museum, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Sørlandets Art Museum in Kristiansand, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and photography festivals throughout Europe and the US. Laval has been recognized with the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, and as one of the Humble Art Foundation's 31 Women in Art Photography (2011), Photo District News' 30 for New and Emerging Photographers (2005), and the Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographers of the Year (2005 and 2009). Laval was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2016.

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Shows an evolution in tone and depth, from the real to the imagined, from the photographic to the painterly.-- "The Eye of Photography" Laval's photographs can bring a variety of emotions to the fore, but the one that stands out the most is the way it entices the reader to jump into the closest body of water. And stay there.--Labanya Maitra "Musee" Slip away into a world where fun in the sun never ends.--Miss Rosen "Feature Shoot" Through the eyes of Karine Laval, life by the pool becomes a fantastical escape from it all.--Sara Rosen "Feature Shoot" With the help of a Portuguese swimming pool, French photographer Karine Laval recalls the summers of her youth.--Tim Adams "Guardian"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783958292611
  • Publisher: Steidl Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Steidl Verlag
  • Height: 305 mm
  • No of Pages: 134
  • Weight: 980 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3958292615
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 240 mm


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