Crazy Photography
210 x 210 mm (8¼ x 8¼ in)
160 pages with 150 illustrations
Paperback with flaps
ISBN 978-1-908126-41-2
Available
£14.95 €19.95 US$24.95
Crazy Photography presents the work of more than fifty contemporary photographers from all over the world demonstrating how the way we capture and look at images has been revolutionised in recent years. In four chapters well-known photographers such as Liu Bolin, Iain Crawford and Pep Ventosa alongside young practitioners like Ari Mahardika and Jan Oliehoek take us on a stunning tour through a visual gallery that reflects our dreams and fears and gives us new, original insights into our consciousness as well as our environment. By skillfully manipulating and playing with images, the artists challenge our perceptions and beliefs, inducing in us an altered view of what seems to be familiar or ordinary.
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Review by: Marla Meier, Apogee Photo Magazine
Crazy Photography is just that - CRAZY! In the new digital world, anything is possible and 40 photo artists from around the world have transformed images of reality into images that can test not only how we view our world, but maybe our perceptions and opinions about it.
The images created by these artists may look familiar, but their manipulated states of realism pull you in to take a much closer look. Is it real? Is that possible? How did they do that? It is broken into four chapters: Body, Scenery, Fears, and Dreams.
The various images in each chapter play on our senses. Contained within the pages you'll find the beautiful and the bizarre, the humorous and the shocking, and things that "go bump in the night" or carry you off to fantasy land. They are all certainly imaginative. And once viewed, you just can't wait to read the artist's introduction and description of his or her work, because just maybe, you'll also get a glimpse into how their minds work. This is a fun book that just may tap into your own imagination.