프랑스 태생의 브루클린 출신 사진작가 카린 라발(Karine Laval, 1971년생)의 풀장(The Pool, 2002-05)과 풀스케이프(Poolscapes, 2009-12)는 모두 수영장을 모티브로 했다. 유럽 전역의 도시와 자연 환경의 공공 수영장과 미국의 개인 수영장을 두 개의 다른 섹션으로 나누어 보여주는 이 책은 연대순으로 배열되어 있으며 사진에서부터 화가에 이르기까지 음색과 깊이에서 진화를 보여준다.
∙ Pages - 134 pages
∙ Dimension - 244 x 310 x 20 mm
∙ Weight - 0.9 kg
∙ ISBN - 9783958292611
∙ Publisher - Steidl
Poolscapes brings together two bodies of work―The Pool (2002–05) and Poolscapes (2009–12)―by French-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Karine Laval (born 1971), both focusing on the motif of the swimming pool. Presenting public pools in urban and natural environments throughout Europe and private pools in the US in two distinct sections, the book is arranged chronologically and shows an evolution in tone and depth, from the photographic to the painterly. The Pool series invites us into a sun-bleached public pool at midday, evocative of childhood memories and the experience of leisure and bathing. Gradually these geometric lines and familiar architectural structures give way to the abstract, often blurred shapes and colors of the Poolscapes pictures that oscillate between representation and abstraction. Here the pool becomes a metaphor, a mirror whose surface reflects the surrounding world but is also a gateway into a realm where bathers are distorted and fragmented. Born in Paris (France), Karine Laval has been living in New York since 1997. She graduated from the University of La Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in communications and journalism. She completed her photography and design education at the Cooper Union School, SVA and the New School in New York. Her artistic practice encompasses photography and video. Her still and moving images often challenge the familiar perception we have of the world, and can be seen as a bridge between the world we live in and a more surreal and dreamlike dimension. They are like metaphoric voyages or reveries through time, place, memory and perception where genres such as narrative and performance are expanded through visual and temporal transformations of represented reality. More recently, her work and approach to photography has moved away from figuration and narration towards abstraction and the deconstruction of representation. She has also integrated digital technologies in her process as a way to explore the limits of the medium and to engage a dialog with other mediums such as painting, moving images and performance. Her work has been featured in international publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, Dazed & Confused, Le Figaro Magazine, The New Yorker, Eyemazing, Next Level, EXIT and many others. In 2005 Laval was selected by Photography District News (PDN) as one of 30 Emerging Photographers To Watch. Laval was chosen to take part in Photo España Descubrimientos program in 2004 and she is also the recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, and internationally at such venues as the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (USA), the Sorlandet Art Museum in Kristiansand and the French Cultural Center in Oslo (Norway), the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France), and at the following international photo festivals: Palm Springs Photo Festival (USA), Lodz Fotofestiwal (Poland), Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Birmingham (UK), Les Rencontres d’Arles (France). Her video „Inferno” was presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of the ASVOFF International Film Festival in 2011.
Poolscapes brings together two bodies of work―The Pool (2002–05) and Poolscapes (2009–12)―by French-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Karine Laval (born 1971), both focusing on the motif of the swimming pool. Presenting public pools in urban and natural environments throughout Europe and private pools in the US in two distinct sections, the book is arranged chronologically and shows an evolution in tone and depth, from the photographic to the painterly. The Pool series invites us into a sun-bleached public pool at midday, evocative of childhood memories and the experience of leisure and bathing. Gradually these geometric lines and familiar architectural structures give way to the abstract, often blurred shapes and colors of the Poolscapes pictures that oscillate between representation and abstraction. Here the pool becomes a metaphor, a mirror whose surface reflects the surrounding world but is also a gateway into a realm where bathers are distorted and fragmented. Born in Paris (France), Karine Laval has been living in New York since 1997. She graduated from the University of La Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in communications and journalism. She completed her photography and design education at the Cooper Union School, SVA and the New School in New York. Her artistic practice encompasses photography and video. Her still and moving images often challenge the familiar perception we have of the world, and can be seen as a bridge between the world we live in and a more surreal and dreamlike dimension. They are like metaphoric voyages or reveries through time, place, memory and perception where genres such as narrative and performance are expanded through visual and temporal transformations of represented reality. More recently, her work and approach to photography has moved away from figuration and narration towards abstraction and the deconstruction of representation. She has also integrated digital technologies in her process as a way to explore the limits of the medium and to engage a dialog with other mediums such as painting, moving images and performance. Her work has been featured in international publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, Dazed & Confused, Le Figaro Magazine, The New Yorker, Eyemazing, Next Level, EXIT and many others. In 2005 Laval was selected by Photography District News (PDN) as one of 30 Emerging Photographers To Watch. Laval was chosen to take part in Photo España Descubrimientos program in 2004 and she is also the recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, and internationally at such venues as the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (USA), the Sorlandet Art Museum in Kristiansand and the French Cultural Center in Oslo (Norway), the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France), and at the following international photo festivals: Palm Springs Photo Festival (USA), Lodz Fotofestiwal (Poland), Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Birmingham (UK), Les Rencontres d’Arles (France). Her video „Inferno” was presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of the ASVOFF International Film Festival in 2011.
