- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (17 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226248526
- ISBN-13: 978-0226248523
- Product Dimensions: 33.6 x 27.3 x 2.3 cm
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"Truly moving, and indeed beautifully moving, there is something uncanny about the way Fielding performs a sort of magic jujitsu transmutation with his photographs. These stark and haunting images of the blind move us; dark and fierce and finally overwhelming, their faces seem to soak in the light, and hence to glow, to glow back at us, to catch us in their gaze." - Lawrence Weschler"
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Sight is central to the medium of photography. But what happens when the subjects of photographic portraits cannot look back at the photographer or even see their own image? An in-depth pictorial study of blind schoolchildren in Mexico, "Look At Me" draws attention to (and distinctions between) the activity of sight and the consciousness of form. Combining aspects of his earlier, acclaimed street work with an innovative approach to portraiture, Chicago-based photographer Jed Fielding has concentrated closely on these children's features and gestures, probing the enigmatic boundaries between surface and interior, innocence and knowing, beauty and grotesque. Design, composition, and the play of light and shadow are central elements in these photographs, but the images are much more than formal experiments; they confront disability in a way that affirms life. Fielding's sightless subjects project a vitality that seems to extend beyond the limits of self-consciousness. In collaborative, joyful participation with the children, he has made pictures that reveal essential gestures of absorption and the basic expressions of our creatureliness. Fielding's work achieves what only great art, and particularly great portraiture can: it launches and then complicates a process of identification across the barriers that separate us from each other. "Look At Me" contains more than sixty arresting images from which we often want to look away, but into which we are nevertheless drawn by their deep humanity and palpable tenderness. This is a monograph of uncommon significance by an important American photographer.
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Astonishing book!
13 Aug 2011
Format:Hardcover
I am a visual artist with a strong love of photography. This astonishing book made a huge visual and emotional impact on me. I find myself returning again and again to look at the photographs. This is a book for serious lovers of fine photographs.
Really great book!
5 July 2011
Format:Hardcover
A friend recently recommended that I buy this book. As an artist I'm always looking for inspiration. This book is absolutely fascinating in every way, and so visually arresting that I could not put it down. I get tired of the same type of photography books, but this one really stands out both in terms of the images and the quality of the reproductions. Jed Fielding handles a delicate subject in a bold yet sensitive manner. I highly recommend it!
Essential book for the Serious Photography Collector
11 Feb 2011
Format:Hardcover
Jed Fieldings book is essential for anyone who is a serious collector of Photography. This body of work is unique and unforgettable. It will make a strong impression and you will find yourself needing time to process all that you see. It is too strong and subtle to understand the impact of his work without going back to the images over and over. Please purchase and enjoy this amazing book.
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