Anja Niemi: In Character

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Anja Niemi

In Character

Anja Niemi

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
07 February 2019

Individual photographers

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self-portraiture.

A photo-artist who works alone - photographing, staging and acting out the characters in all of her images - Niemi is a constant presence, in character, in her work, developing complex, nuanced narratives through evocative costume and styling, her characters framed and formed within meticulously staged mise-en-scène. In her bewitching 'Darlene & Me' series, for example, she reconfigures the concept of the Hitchcock blonde within a pristine Lynchian landscape for her own visual pleasure - and ours - while in 'She Could Have Been A Cowboy' she turns the lens to a life lived under the constraints of conformity.

Anja Niemi is now at the 'breakout moment' in her career, having had exhibitions in Amsterdam, London, New York, Oslo and Paris, and with her first museum retrospective show opening at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm in February 2019. With over 100 photographs organized into the six series that have marked Niemi's career to date, supported by an essay and interview by Max Houghton, Anja Niemi: In Character is the perfect introduction for those encountering Niemi's work for the first time, and a comprehensive retrospective of her career to date for her long-time followers.

By: Anja Niemi
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 180mm,
Weight: 1.000kg
ISBN: 9780500545119
ISBN 10: 0500545111
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 07 February 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction • Do Not Disturb • Starlets • Darlene & Me • Short Stories • The Woman Who Never Existed • She Could Have Been a Cowboy

Anja Niemi (b. 1976, Oslo) studied at the London College of Printing and Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York, and has exhibited in galleries worldwide. Three previous monographs of her work have been published, and her work appeared in Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Reviews for Anja Niemi: In Character

'Enigmatic' - Observer 'When viewed in sequence, the images could be mistaken for movie stills, melancholic mise-en-scenes evocative of anticipatory cinematic pauses' - Aesthetica 'Beautifully curated' - Architectural Digest 'Cinematic' - High Life 'In Character, Niemi's inaugural monograph, looks at her unique practice of building worlds and characters in her photographs that ruminate on gender and identity' - AnOther 'The way Niemi works with storytelling through photography is truly mesmerizing' - The Doyennes