Guest by Christopher Bucklow
Essays by Maria Morris Hambourg and David Allen Mellor
A Blind Spot Book, published by powerHouse Books
Clothbound, 11.25 x 13.25 inches, 152 pages,
86 four-color photographs
ISBN 1-57687-235-1 $50.00
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"These 'guests' are spooks for our time, a New Age vision of the body as
energy that is also a specter of nuclear fusion." —Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle
Known for his silhouettes made using a pinhole camera, Christopher Bucklow's
first monograph, Guest, collects for the first time many works from the
"Guest" and "Tetrarchs" series. It also documents his earlier photographic
work and video images made within the Canopic Fusion Reactor—a pinhole
camera the size of a building, built in St. Ives in Cornwall, England, for
the total eclipse of the sun, visible there in 1999.
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"[Bucklow's photographs] create the impression of presences that seem both
three-dimensional and immaterial-more like auras than physical objects. I am
reminded of photographs taken a century ago featuring see-through presences
that purported to be wraiths or spirits. Bucklow doesn't make any such
claims: but the fact that the head is usually the lightest part of the image
suggests that he is trying to portray something other than the
body-intelligence, awareness, the spirit; call it what you will."
—Sarah Kent, Time Out London
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Christopher Bucklow was made Artist in Residence at The British Museum,
London in 2003. Bucklow's work can be seen in various collections including
the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is
currently Artist in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust in the English Lake
District. Bucklow lives in Frome, England.
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Maria Morris Hambourg is Head of the Department of Photographs at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Hambourg has written on Eugène Atget
and curated large-scale photography retrospectives including "A Waking
Dream" in 1993. She lives in New York.
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David Alan Mellor has written extensively on Francis Bacon and contemporary
art. His book, The Sixties (Philip Wilson, 1997), accompanied a major survey
exhibition at the Barbican gallery, London. Mellor is professor of the
History of Art at the University of Sussex. He lives in Brighton, England.
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