Mark Morrisroe - Collective Authors

Overview

This book is a collection of the extraordinarily diverse work of the American photographer Mark Morrisroe.

The publication is illustrated with more than 500 images, and accompanied by newly commissioned essays and an extensive biography.

Mark Morrisroe

Mark Morrisroe has until now been mostly exhibited and discussed in connection with his famous Boston colleagues Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. Like them, Morrisroe documented his circle of friends, whose lifestyles were inspired by punk and bohemia. He finished his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in boston in 1982, a few years later than Goldin and Armstrong.

He moved to New York in the middle of the 1980s, and died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1989 when he was only 30. MArk Morrisroe's short period of creativity in the 1980s was astonishingly productive and stands out because of its individual aesthetic. He captured his friends and family in painterly portraits and nude photographs; the Polaroid camera became a mirror of his own body, reflecting its illnesses and decay. During the three years leading up to his death he transferred his photographic experiments more and more to the darkroom, where he used pages from magazines and X-ray images of himself as negatives.

This first comprehensive monograph shows many unknown works; from the tumultuous punk beginnings to the sandwich prints produced through extensive laboratory work, the graininess and muted colours of which are reminiscent of Pictorialism.

info

Height: 26cm
Width: 20cm
Depth: 3.5cm

100% Paper

512 pages

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