Isolated Gesture
Signed Book: Oversized 9 1/2" x 24" open, 144 pages of Duotone plates, hardbound linen cover with foil stamp on spine, slipcover with cover image and title, stitched Smyth sewn seams.
Prints: 16” x 20" silver gelatin darkroom prints, double weight fiber, limited edition of four. Please inquire with image name.
Signed Book: $50 Prints: $800 +
“Since Garry Winogrand, Larry Fink, Diane Arbus, William Klein and so many others, the aesthetic of the “wrong” has become accepted practice in photography. Aggressive framing, dramatic contrast, unconventional subjects, unflattering shots—all have become comfortably ensconced in the standard repertoire. These photographers—and Zelman positions himself among them—are not exactly conceptual pranksters in the Baldessari mold, but they’re agitators of a related sort, purposely getting it wrong in one way so as to get it right in another, disrupting visual order to ignite a kind of visceral disorder.
If what we typically do in front of a camera is compose ourselves, what Zelman’s pictures record is the withholding of that opportunity. They show people with a candidness that verges on decomposition.”
— Los Angeles Times
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