Brian Weil, 1979–95

Name: Brian Weil, 1979–95
Price: 95 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780884541271

Being in the World

Stamatina Gregory, Amy Sadao, Stamatina Gregory , Sylvère Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor)

$95

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Semiotext (E)
07 May 2006

Individual photographers

Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents

The first career retrospective of activist photographer Brian Weil, whose work and practice explored insular cultures.

This book offers the first career retrospective of Brian Weil (1954-1996), an artist whose photographs pushed viewers into a deeply unsteadying engagement with insular communities and subcultures. A younger contemporary of such participant-observer photographers as Larry Clark and Nan Goldin, Weil took photographs that foreground the complex relationships between photographer and subject, and between photograph and viewer.

Weil was a member of ACT UP and the founder of New York City's first needle exchange, and his photographs became inextricably tied to his activist practice. His late work, an extensive series of portraits whose subjects bear witness to the emerging AIDS pandemic, is included here, along with selections from several earlier and concurrent projects- Sex (underground sex and bondage participants), Miami Crime (homicide scenes investigated by the Miami Police Department), Hasidim (populations of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and the Catskills), and an extensive video project with members of nascent transgender support groups.

This book commemorates a 2013 exhibition of Brian Weil's work at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and includes in-depth essays on Weil by Stamatina Gregory and Jennifer Burris, an interiew with the artist by Claudia Gould, and reprints of archival edited notes discussing crime and photographic evidence based on a series of interviews conducted by Sylv re Lotringer with filmmaker George Diaz in the 1980s.

Contributions by: Amy Sadao, Stamatina Gregory, Sylvère Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor), Jennifer R. Burris
Edited by: Stamatina Gregory
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 298mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 603g
ISBN: 9780884541271
ISBN 10: 0884541274
Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 07 May 2006
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stamatina Gregory is an independent curator and scholar currently based in New York, where she is completing a PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Jennifer Burris was the 2011-2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she curated the exhibitions Glitter and Folds and Living Document/Naked Reality- Towards an Archival Cinema. Stamatina Gregory is an independent curator and scholar currently based in New York, where she is completing a PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Jennifer Burris was the 2011-2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she curated the exhibitions Glitter and Folds and Living Document/Naked Reality- Towards an Archival Cinema. Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University. Jennifer Burris was the 2011-2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she curated the exhibitions Glitter and Folds and Living Document/Naked Reality- Towards an Archival Cinema.