Laurent La Gamba, The Art of Camouflage, is the first book dedicated to the work of the photographer and conceptual artist Laurent La Gamba. Here are 70 reproductions of his work spanning the now famous installations by the artist from the first supermarket camouflages, to the self-portraits with fridges and the well known "pool" series. The book gives you a look into rarely seen before works too. A must see both for those who know La Gamba and those wanting to discover his work

Laurent La Gamba, Works on canvas - Portraits and Self-portraits (1998 - 2001) Artist Laurent La Gamba tries to explore the subversive potential of consumer society to produce satirical canvases. It's a symbiosis of precarious ego fictions and pictorial discovery of the fundamental instability of self. The artist is playing with consumer emblems and marketing to draw an ironical point of identification with the character photographed. For the artist the self-portrait genre is an instrument, delivering a complete range of self-representation. The portraits and self-portraits melodramatize and...