Pretend You're Actually Alive (SIGNED)
.jpg)
Leigh Ledare
Pretend You're Actually Alive (SIGNED)
Photographs: Leigh Ledare
Publisher: PPP Editions
242 pages
Year: 2008
Comments: Pristine first edition copy with original plastic wrap, softcover in hardcover printed slipcase. 20.5 x 26.5 cm.
From the editor: "Composed in its entirety of photographs, written anecdotes, and ephemera, Leigh Ledare’s first book, Pretend You’re Actually Alive, is a searingly intimate investigation of the artist’s relationship with his mother, a once-promising prodigy ballerina.
Both a revealing family album and an unfolding of the relationship between Ledare and his muse/mother, Ledare’s photography and video work involves creating strategies to navigate the themes embodied within this extraordinarily complex relationship. Pretend You’re Actually Alive can be viewed as an archive of a mother and son’s shared, private moments amid the desperate attempts to renew her identity as a dancer – this time working as a stripper in a club beside her parents’ apartment. Pretend You’re Actually Alive is also a mapping of Ledare’s mother’s efforts to commodify herself – initially through her precocious childhood talent, later through her overt sexuality, and eventually through the portrayal of herself as an archetypal victim – in efforts to find companionship, attention, financial security, and a benefactor before her youthful, marketable currencies expire.
Pretend You’re Actually Alive is foundational to Ledare’s continuing investigations around portraiture, issues of authorship, collaboration, performance, authenticity, and an ongoing inquiry into the ways in which personal boundaries complicate subjectivity."
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
more books tagged »PPP Editions« | >> see all
-
Two Changes (Edt of 50)
by Adam Murray
sold -
Industria, Virtus, et Fortitudo (edt of 100)
by Jamie Hawkesworth, Adam Murray & Robert Parkinson
sold -
In a State (Edt of 50)
by Adam Murray
sold -
M&M Line (Edt of 50)
by Robert Parkinson
sold -
Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980 (SIGNED)
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold
more books tagged »signed « | >> see all
-
Farewell photography (signed)
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE EST L'ART (SPECIAL EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AU...
by Man Ray
sold -
FALSE FRIENDS (SIGNED)
by Dominic Turner
Euro 48 -
Soi 1 (Signed)
by Kotaro Yokomizo
sold -
Pain (Signed and numbered, edt of 500)
by Toni Amengual
Euro 180 -
A fine day / Hareta Hi (SIGNED)
by Kishin Shinoyama
sold
more books tagged »intimacy« | >> see all
-
It’s not him you see at night in your dreams
by Valerie Phillips
sold -
Sub Rosa
by Birthe Piontek
sold -
My Photo Album
by Tracey Emin
sold -
Aina & Tage
by Rebecka Uhlin
sold -
Alessandro
by Arturo Russo
sold -
ENTRE NOUS (NUMBERED)
by Clara Belleville
sold
more books tagged »family« | >> see all
-
In search of lost memories (Signed and numbered, edt of 33)
by Hajime Kimura
sold -
FAMILY BUSINESS
by Mitch Epstein
sold -
Emmet Gowin Photographs (FIRST EDITION)
by Emmet Gowin
Euro 70 -
Mother's
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold -
DAUGHTERS (Signed)
by Margaret M. de Lange
sold -
Sofa Portraits (Signed)
by Colin Pantall
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com