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Book SynopsisDouble Exposures is a new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the UK. Ten years after his first, groundbreaking book Exposures, Vason has produced another extraordinary body of work, which sets out new ways of bridging performance and photography. For Double Exposures, Vason has worked with two groups of artists, using two distinct types of collaboration, to produce a series of double images. Artists who had previously worked with Vason were invited to create two images, one of their own practice and another, where they took on the role of the photographer, shaping an image with Vason’s body. A second group of new collaborators were invited to create a performance, which could be captured in two photographs. All the images exist as doubles – pairs – diptychs.
Trade Review'Manuel Vason is to Performance Art what Robert Capa is to war photography.'
-- Franko B, artist
'Manuel Vason's images exist somewhere between portraiture, performance documentation, and documentary - or perhaps, his images are fashion shots, but the bodies are clothed in performance.'
-- Tracy Warr, independent curator, editor of The Artist's Body
'Manuel Vason's startling and stylised images, powerfully reproduced in Encounters, violently force bodily abjection into the arena of the sublime. Not since the era of Caravaggio and Bernini has pain been so exquisitely and beautifully rendered - here, through Vason's capacity to connect, via the red-hot wire of aesthetic reduction, to the bodies that wield and convey it.'
-- Amelia Jones
'Photography stages what it records; and subjects perform on that stage. In this age of the complicit auto-branding of the ‘Selfie’, it’s a relief to be reminded that the self and the camera are less knowable than we might think. In this book Manual Vason’s collaborative photographs along with a range of nimble writers reopen for us all the uncertainties and possibilities, the trapdoors and escape hatches that make the self and the camera such wild companions.'
-- David Campany, writer, curator and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London
Table of ContentsIntroduction, David Evans
Double Exposures, Manuel Vason in Dialogue with Helena Blaker
Manuel Vason – Framing Live Art, Lois Keidan
Performance, Photography, Collaboration, Revisted: A History of Manuel Vason, Dominic Johnson
Past-Present-Future, Alice Maude-Roxby
Merely a Stain in the Picture?, Christopher Townsend
Doubled Up: The Art of the Body, David Bate
Performative Conceptualism: Double Sense, Double Fracture, Double View, Adrien Sina
The Life-Making Power of Photography, Joanna Zylinska
Double Exposures
Reversing the Gaze
Double Images
Artists' Notes
Behind the Scenes
Biographies
100 Exposures
After Double Exposures
