Amir Zaki, Building and Becoming by Walter Benn Michaels (English) Hardcover Boo

Description: Amir Zaki, Building and Becoming by Walter Benn Michaels, Amir Zaki, Jennifer Ashton, Corrina Peipon Hyperrealist photographer of California skateparks Amir Zakis new monograph covers twenty-plus years of photographic work, includes an essay and interview. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Hyperrealist photographer Amir Zakis new monograph covers 20+ years of photographic work, following his widely reviewed book California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks. Includes an essay and interview.A double gatefold sculptural monograph with no singular entry or exit and three spines, Amir Zaki, Building + Becoming opens to a full width of roughly 40 inches and brings multiple series into focus: suspended landscapes, rocks, carvings, and hyper-realist California beach architecture, which like his skateparks (also included), are uncannily quiet and devoid of people. "I am looking for a kind of strangeness within the commonplace ... where something familiar and unfamiliar is initially welcoming yet alienating, using digital technology as a means to an end."Literary critics Walter Benn Michaels and Jennifer Ashton discuss Zakis manipulation of space through evenness, which is accomplished by creating a perfectly technically focused object: "The point is not that the pictures overcome physical limits, but that they violate the logic of our eyesight." Referencing the history of landscape and modern photography in California (Edward Weston, Ansel Adams), Michaels and Ashton show that Zakis insistence on marrying technology seamlessly with this tradition results in continuity, an "addition through subtraction" of the third-dimension. Zaki has been interviewed for NPR online and featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, as well as having been interviewed in Dezeen, Wallpaper, The New Order, Elle Decor, Hypebeast, GUP Magazine, and Aramco World. His last book, California Concrete is in the top 50 in Skateboarding books and top 150 in Individual Photographer books on Amazon. Author Biography Amir Zaki is a practicing artist who lives in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1999 and, since, has been regularly exhibiting nationally and internationally. Zaki has had over 30 solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries and has been included in over 50 group exhibitions in significant venues including The California Biennial: 2006 at the Orange County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Western Bridge in Seattle, the California Museum of Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Zakis work is part of numerous public and private collections across the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), UCLA Hammer Museum, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has published three prior monographs (one -- California Concrete -- featuring a contribution by skateboarder Tony Hawk) and has been featured in Phaidons survey Vitamin Ph as well as the anthology Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles.Walter Benn Michaels is an American literary theorist and author of The Beauty of a Social Problem; Photography, Autonomy and Political Economy and Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism.Jennifer Ashton is Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago whose writing and research focuses on poetics and 20th/21st century American poetry. She is a founding member of the arts and politics journal, nonsite.org. Corrina Peipon is an artist, writer, and curator who lives in Los Angeles. Review Zaki makes photographs that are slightly off-key, like a troubling thought you cant dislodge. Architectural studies were the focus of Zakis previous series, in which he incorporated strange, invented symbols into the signage of ordinary churches, gas stations and strip mall eateries. His pictures are seamless and quite beautiful.--Art in AmericaAmir Zaki makes stately, often elegant photographs that subtly undermine perceptions of coherence and stability in architecture. His relentlessly inquisitive spirit uncovers the peculiar, the precarious, the buoyant and the beautiful in the structures we tend to pass with little thought. Broadening his scope here from the architecture itself to the incongruous intertwining of architecture and nature, he reveals telling strains of resistance and pliability in both.--Los Angeles TimesThe self-described "hybrid photography" of Amir Zaki nails the essence of the subjects he captures on camera while also making them cryptic or confounding. Rules of perspective and spatial logic are frequently and ingeniously tossed aside. Wherever he turns his attention, Zakis eye-befuddling wizardry takes you deep below the surface.--Seattle Times Shrewd and elegant digital photographs.--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles TimesAmir does a really nice job of showcasing the unique character of a skatepark landscape. It can look brutalist, elegant, and otherworldly all at the same time. --Jaxon Statzell, lead designer, CA SkateparksZakis raw, hyper-detailed photography is taken from the perspective of the skater, from decks to bowls, half- and quarter-pipes, encapsulating the sculptural fluidity and liberation presented by these free-flowing Brutalist terrains. The resulting collection of images is an honest, unabashed and detailed homage to the sport. In an age where skating has arguably lost touch with its counter-culture roots, Zakis photographic exploration is a testimonial callback to its origins -- a reminder of the importance of space to the nurturing of worldwide phenomena. --Wallpaper Review Quote Zakis images are often haunting, the skate parks rendered as Brutalist architecture. -- Los Angeles Times [Zaki] make[s] photographs that are slightly off-key, like a troubling thought you cant dislodge. [...] Architectural studies, of a sort, were the focus of Zakis previous series, in which he incorporated strange, invented symbols into the signage of ordinary churches, gas stations and strip mall eateries. [...] His pictures are seamless and quite beautiful. And the subject is well chosen. Iconic and easily overlooked, lifeguard towers--pedestals for tanned, robust, youthful saviors--become, in Zakis work, unex Description for Sales People About the series Mid-career artist monograph surveys 22-year career and presents the conceptual, technical rigor and acrobatic, intense creativity of Amir Zaki, a former Inland Empire skateboarder whose prior book, California Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks, featured a contribution by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk and is in the top 50 in Skateboarding books and top 150 in Individual Photographer books on Amazon. Some of these skateparks are included as are over a dozen other series focusing on California beach architecture, landscapes, and alienated objects both digital and natural. Zakis hyper-realistic photographs have seemingly imposing scale and multiple vanishing points. Cutting edge technology Zakis Gigapan tripod allows for hundreds of perfectly-focused telephoto shots that he stitches together in laborious post-production with the effect of a wide overall angle of view, which exaggerates spatial depth and allows what he calls "a visual push and pull, a subtle contradiction, and peculiarity in how space is rendered in certain tight areas and from difficult positions that would be impossible to capture otherwise." Striking book design Double gate-fold, 25 x 29 cm portrait size hardcover book opens once and then each side opens again to almost 40 inches, revealing four photographs in a row and can be read from either the "Becoming" or the "Building" side, reflecting reading left-to-right or right-to-left as an inflection of his melded American-Egyptian heritage. Arctic Volume White paper, 4 color UV printing. Shrink-wrapped for added security and damage control. The cover is tactile, foil stamped and debossed. Printed by Offset in Turkey, well-known printer for high-end photography (prints Aperture magazine and books). Widespread museum representation and critical reception Zakis work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York),, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, the Henry Art Gallery (University of Washington, Seattle), the Orange County Museum of Art (Irvine), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Zaki has been included in the Phaidon anthology of contemporary photography, Vitamin Ph, and contributed essays to LACMAs groundbreaking text, Words Without Pictures as well as an Aperture anthology organized by Charlotte Cotton called Photography is Magic, which addresses a major technological shift in contemporary photographic practices. Zakis work has been reviewed over 15 years: featured in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Art in America, and the Seattle Times; interviewed for NPR online and featured or interviewed in Dezeen, Wallpaper, The New Order, Elle Decor, Hypebeast, GUP Magazine, and Aramco World. Critical comparisons Zaki has been compared to California photographers Edward Weston, who similarly "possessed the ability to transform the life force of nature by wrangling its inherent, life energy into sculptures of stillness," and Ansel Adams, in terms of his precision and technical abilities, as well as the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto: "Zaki and Sugimoto share the sensibility that emptiness itself is a mode of perception." Through two well-respected literary critics and professors at University of Illinois Chicago, Walter Benn Michaels and Jennifer Ashton, we gain insight into Zakis manipulation of space through evenness, which is accomplished by creating a perfectly technically focused object: "The point is not that the pictures overcome physical limits, but that they violate the logic of our eyesight." Book-buying market Collecting art remains out of reach for many, but an art book is a democratic way for people to own some of Zakis work, for under $100. This limited edition makes a great gift for any photographer or art lover -- an aspect of discovery and a personal journey of close examination and introspection not possible in a gallery space. Details ISBN1954600011 Author Corrina Peipon Language English Year 2022 Photographer Amir Zaki ISBN-10 1954600011 ISBN-13 9781954600010 Format Hardcover Pages 272 Audience General Publisher DoppelHouse Press Publication Date 2022-04-26 Imprint DoppelHouse Press Place of Publication Los Angeles Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2022-04-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135100661;

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