Dark Knees by Mark Cohen
A photo book by American photographer Mark Cohen.
Mark Cohen has been a leading figure in street photography since the 1970s. He has been relentlessly photographing his hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and its surroundings, but he has never been interested in painting a social portrait of the coal town. For over 40 years, he has always maintained a cautious, distant eye of an outsider. Cohen approaches his subjects with a camera in one hand and a flash in the other, and takes his signature "grab shot" on impulse. In both black and white and color, his photographs are taken at arm's length and almost always out of focus, with gestures, postures, and fragments of body parts cutting away as they run through the frame, leaving only a faceless torso, a hand, a foot, a pair of legs, or simply a knee. From this combination of dizzying lines, these images exude a restless energy and the strangeness of everyday life. This book is a photobook published in conjunction with a solo exhibition held at "Le Bal" in Paris in 2013, and its simple book design brings out the best of Cohen's charm.
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Title: Dark Knees
Artist: Mark Cohen
Le Bal/Editions Xavier Barral, 2013
Hardcover
250 x 175 mm
188 pages
Text in French and English
First edition
ISBN: 978-2365110426
¥38,500 -