| Jeffrey Silverthorne: Directions for Leaving, Photographs 1971-2006 (signed exhibition catalog) |
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A recent retrospective catalog published by Fotografisk Center in Denmark on the occasion of the Silverthorne exhibition summer of 2007, essay by Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx, interview with Cary Loren and a letter by Robert Frank. About 200 pages, color and black and white full page images, covering all aspects of the photographer's work including; female impersonators, morgue work, missing person posters, Texas-Mexico border, portraits, nudes, silent fire series, Detroit Negatives, Goth kids and recent work featuring self-portraiture and nude models. Fascinating nerve-wrenching work. Imagine a meeting of Kafka, Freud and Brassai in a Mexican bordello during their last days on earth. Catalog is hardbound, in decorative boards, 9x7", only 1200 copies were printed. This copy is signed by the photographer.
About the Artist:
Jeffrey Silverthorne is an MFA graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and has studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. His first major project was an investigation into the daily practices of the morgue, which began after Silverthorne's discussion and meeting with Diane Arbus as a guest lecturer at RISD in the late 1960s. The morgue work was first shown in 1973 at the Witkin gallery in NYC. Silverthorne has work in the collections of MOMA, the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of New Orleans.
Silverthorne has taken on various self-motivated projects that explore existence on the very fringes of society, some of these areas include; prisons, prostitutes, transvestites, slaughter-houses, the circus, Goth clubs, morgues and more recently his own body in relationship to a field of nude models and casual studio and backyard settings. Many of his images echo classical formal studies, with traces of Max Beckman, Soutine, Rembrandt and Gericault. His studio work has a casual elegance set against the performance of everyday rituals under the specter and dimension of sexual desire and the acceptance of aging. "The new work has been about attraction, desire, basic elements of life... a kind of contained theater," Silverthorne has said.
Original contemporary and vintage signed photographs are available by this photographer, please inquire.
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