Luke Smalley: Exercise at Home
$125.00
Unit price
per
Author: Smalley, Luke
In 'Exercise at Home', now reissued after being out of print since 2007, photographer Luke Smalley (1955-2009) returns to his native Pennsylvania to consider the small-town interiors and landscapes that are the settings for his portraits of young athletes. Colour photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, combine whimsy with the inexplicable. Scale, time and content are altered to create the world Smalley inhabits. The lush colours of this new vision belie the viewer’s sense of dislocation.Smalley hires a local seamstress to construct a colossal medicine ball; he binds two boys together with a "harness" and leaves them in an empty room for a psychological game of tug-of-war, while somewhere nearby two others lead donkeys around the floor of a basketball court in a high school gym. Luke Smalley had his first photobook discovered in a hotel lobby by Dior Men’s fashion designer and artistic director Kim Jones. Smalley shot Jones’ first fashion line and went on to have a storied career in fashion photography. His images have appeared in the New York Times style section, Dazed and V, among others.
ISBN 9781936611218. Twin Palms Publishers. hb. 48 pages. 30 colour ills. 30.5 x 20.3 cm.
available
In 'Exercise at Home', now reissued after being out of print since 2007, photographer Luke Smalley (1955-2009) returns to his native Pennsylvania to consider the small-town interiors and landscapes that are the settings for his portraits of young athletes. Colour photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, combine whimsy with the inexplicable. Scale, time and content are altered to create the world Smalley inhabits. The lush colours of this new vision belie the viewer’s sense of dislocation.Smalley hires a local seamstress to construct a colossal medicine ball; he binds two boys together with a "harness" and leaves them in an empty room for a psychological game of tug-of-war, while somewhere nearby two others lead donkeys around the floor of a basketball court in a high school gym. Luke Smalley had his first photobook discovered in a hotel lobby by Dior Men’s fashion designer and artistic director Kim Jones. Smalley shot Jones’ first fashion line and went on to have a storied career in fashion photography. His images have appeared in the New York Times style section, Dazed and V, among others.
ISBN 9781936611218. Twin Palms Publishers. hb. 48 pages. 30 colour ills. 30.5 x 20.3 cm.
available