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Hannah Starkey
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Since 1997, Hannah Starkey has produced a series of photographic meditations on contemporary life. Her early
works were staged scenarios based on the experiences of young women living in the city. They were meticulously
constructed and often cinematic, suggesting a narrative that had been artificially suspended in time. Her later works,
both technically and compositionally more advanced, set up a tension between the real and the imaginary and draw
attention to the banality and dehumanizing effects of the constructed environments in which we lead so much of our
lives. In recent years her close observation of the urban landscape has produced a series of images in which
surfaces–a wall, an air-conditioning duct, a runway–become relevant subjects in themselves. Starkey’s understanding
of the passage contemporary photography has made in the past decade continues to fuel and to challenge the
development of her own imagery, making her one of the most influential and exceptional photographic artists working
today. This book, her first, covers ten years’ work.
Hannah Starkey was born in Belfast in 1971. She studied Photography and Film at Napier University, Edinburgh,
followed by an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1997. Since then her work has been
shown internationally, including at the Saatchi Gallery, London (1998), the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
and the Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam (1999), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2000), Tate Liverpool (2001),
New Art Gallery, Walsall (2002), Bard College, New York (2003), Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2005), and
the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2006). She has been represented by Interim Art, London since 1997.
Hannah Starkey
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Edited by Liz Jobey and Isabella Kullmann
Essay by Iwona Blazwick
Book design by Steidl Design
124 pages with 47 color plates
14.25 x 11 in. / 36 x 28 cm
Clothbound stitched hardcover
$ 95.00 / £ 50.00 / € 75.00
ISBN: 978-3-86521-373-0
PostScript Bild
(9783865213730)
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