Playground: James Mollison

ISBN-13: 9781597113076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 136 str.

James Mollison

Opis

James Mollison's photo projects are based on smart, original concepts applied to serious social and environmental themes. For his latest book, Playground, Mollison has photographed children at play in school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood, and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world at a young age through play. For each picture, Mollison sets up his camera during school break time, making multiple frames, and then composing each final photograph from several scenes, in which he finds revealing "play" narratives. With photographs from rich and poor schools, in countries including Argentina, Bhutan, Bolivia, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Norway, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom and the USA, Mollison also provides lively access for readers of all ages to issues of global diversity and inequality.
The work of James Mollison (born 1973) has been featured widely in such publications as Colors, The New York Times Magazine and The Paris Review, among many others. He has also published several books, among them James and Other Apes (2004), The Disciples (2008) and Where Children Sleep (2010).

O autorze

Jon Ronson, geboren 1967, lebt und arbeitet in London. Er schreibt für den "Guardian" und moderiert und produziert Sendungen für BBC Radio 4, Channel Four und weitere. James Mollison wurde 1973 in Kenia geboren und wuchs in England auf. Nachdem er Kunst und Design und später Film und Fotografie studierte, zog er nach Italien, wo er bei Benetton arbeitete. Seine Fotografien sind in Magazinen wie Colors, dem New York Times Magazine, dem Guardian Magazine und Le Monde erscheinen. Im Natural History Museum in London ist seine Fotoausstellung über Riesenaffen zu sehen, zu dem er auch ein Buch herausgab. Heute lebt James Mollison in Venedig.