Ari Marcopoulos

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Neville Wakefield

Expressing the immediacy And The continuity of Ari Marcopoulos's work, Directory is a 1200 page volume composed of approximately 1200 black and white photographs from throughout his near-30 year career. Marcopoulos's prints, which he often creates with a standard black and white copy machine, appear in this limited edition tome that is printed on an uncoated newsprint and bound to mimic a phonebook. Curator and critic Neville Wakefield provides insightful commentary on Marcopoulos's singular images. Each book in this limited edition includes a photocopied print signed by the artist. For three decades, Marcopoulos has been documenting not only contemporary subcultures, including skateboarders and graffiti artists, but also celebrities, landscapes, and his own family and friends. Since his days printing photographs For The Warhol Factory, he has amassed a huge body of work marked by its unsentimental and arresting intimacy. He is known not only for his work as a fine photographer, but is also is well respected in the world of fashion, advertising, and celebrity portraiture. Directory presents a collection of Marcopoulos's photographs that span his career, The bulk of which were taken during the late 2000s.

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