Stephen Frailey: Looking at Photography: Follow the Lead of Fairy Tales Heroes!

Product Description My Brother Hans Was 38 Years Old When He Was Found Dead In A Berlin Hotel Room. He Had Suffered Acardiac Arrest, Caused By Drugs. His Death Was A Fact, The Way He Died A Taboo. For Years And Years,We His Family Didnot Speakopenly About His Addictions. But I Had So Many Questions To Ask Hans. Why Did Youget Addicted,Whynotme? What Happened That Made You Becomeaddicted? How Does Addictionfeel? Could I Have Done Anything To Prevent It?With This Book I Am Breakingthe Taboo. Thebook Reflects My Feelings, Thoughts And Memories During My Search For Answersto The Questions I Could Not Ask Hans Anymore. I Visited Berlin, Studied Our Family Albums And Talked To Many People Who Dealt With Addictions. The Book Will Be Accompanied Bya Video Installation In Which People Who Recovered From Addiction Answer My Questions Instead Of My Brother. Their Story Will Be Published In This Book. It Shows The Human Being Behind Addiction. Review The World Has Become Deluged By Stores Of Images Flooding Our Daily Lives By Virtue Of The Explosion Of Digital Technology And Our Reliance Upon It. Yet The Subject Of Visual Literacy Goes Largely Unaddressed, And It Is For This Reason That Photographer And Educator Stephen FraileyS New Book, Looking At Photography Is A MuchNeeded Contribution To The Discourse. [...] Frailey Has Compiled A Fascinating Selection Of Works Accompanied By Insightful And Accessible Text.Miss Rosen BlindFrailey Picks Up Where The MomaS Former Director Of Photography Left Off By Examining Images From The Early Eighties On. Each Of The 100 Photos Is Accompanied With Insights About The Photographers. Readers Will Learn How Knight, For Example, Has Emboldened The Medium To Champion Complex Photographic Technology And Forays Into Digital Sculpture, Holography And Virtual Reality.Rosemary Feitelberg WwdThe Need To Explain Why Photographers Do What They Do, And Why It Is Valuable, Remains As Important As Ever. Stephen Frailey Has Taken On The Challenge.David Schoerner Pro Photo DailyFrailey Has Used SzarkowskiS Format To Distill His Understanding Of Photography, In All Its Modern Tangents...The Need To Explain Why Photographers Do What They Do, And Why It Is Valuable, Remains As Important As Ever.David Schonauer American PhotoOpens Windows To The Work Of Tim Walker, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Nick Knight, Alex Prager, Collier Schorr, Juergen Teller, Deborah Turbeville And Others.Rosemary Feitelberg Wwd About The Author Stephen Frailey Studied At The San Francisco Art Institute And Received His Ba From Bennington College. He Has Had Solo Exhibitions At 303 Gallery And The Julie Saul Gallery And Group Exhibitions In New York At The Museum Of Modern Art, And The International Center For Photography, As Well As At The National Museum Of American Art, Washington, Dc. His Work Has Appeared As Portfolios Or Been Reviewed In Publications Such As Thenew York Times, Arts Magazine, Artforum, New Yorker, And Theparis Review. His Work Is In The Collections Of The Museum Of Fine Art, Houston; The International Center For Photography, New York; And The Princeton University Art Museum. He Has Been Chair Of The Photography Department At New YorkS School Of Visual Arts Since 1998 And Is Also The CoChair Of The Mps Fashion Photography Program At The School Of Visual Arts. In 2003, He Founded The Auction For Photographic Education In Afghanistan To Create A Photography Department At Kabul University. He Is The CoFounder Of The Art+Commerce Festival In New York. In 2007 He Founded The Photography Magazinedear Dave, And Is Its Editor In Chief.