Charlie White: Photographs

by Charlie White

Full color images and complete details of Charlie White's three recent photographic projects. This is a thorough treatment of an artist whose images have explored the limits of pornography, the modern psychological landscape and the emotionally fraught relationship between self-perception and appearance. In an extended conversation with Lisa Anne Auerbach, White discusses the role of collaboration in his work and his relationship to American identity and L.A.'s image culture. Includes an Introduction by Ronald Jones and essays by Annabel Chong, William Deverell and Fred Alan Wolf. "Charlie's photographs express a moralizing flavor, and become allegories of human will, atrocities balanced by kindness, that infuse the particulars of our culture."-Ronald Jones, from the Introduction

Genres: Photography, Art

Hardcover

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Charlie White (born 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Los Angeles-based artist. White received his BFA in 1994 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and received his MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, in 1998. He is the Director of the MFA program at the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Reviews

[Hank Stuever · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still mesmerizing. Of all the books that I've offloaded over the years, I still find this one an irresistible part of my small(ish) collection of photo books.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guy's photos are so f'd up. They usually involve some kind of mundane scene but then you notice there's a deformed monster in the background. Freakish.