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102 Fazal Sheikh Girl Child In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees, to hire a midwife to administer the birth of a child. For an additional ten rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage in which Fazal Sheikh’s work on the predicament of the girl-child in India began – 99% of that orphanage’s population are girls. By delving into the story of the girl-child, Sheik renders the other side of the spectrum of women in India. Girl Child is the second part of his project on India, which was begun with Moksha (published in 2005 by Steidl). Fazal Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University, he has collaborated with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. His awards include the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, the Prix d’Arles, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His previous books include A Sense of Common Ground, The Victor Weeps, A Camel for the Son, Ramadan Moon and Moksha. Exhibitions of his work have been presented at Tate Modern, London; the International Center of Photography, New York; and the United Nations, New York. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the George Eastman House, Rochester; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York City. Girl Child won the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation Grand Prize and will be exhibited at the Foundation Paris, April to July, 2007; Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, Winter 2007; BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden, Fall 2007; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam – dates to be determined. An exhibition/retrospective will be held at PhotoEspana, Summer 2007; and at Gallery 2D3D, Innsbruck, Austria, March to May 2007. Co-published with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Fazal Sheikh Girl Child Book design by Fazal Sheikh 140 pages with 70 tritone plates 10.5 x 13 in. / 26.7 x 33 cm Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket $ 30.00 / £ 17.50 / € 25.00 ISBN: 978-3-86521-381-5 PostScript Bild (9783865213815) 103
104 Darren Almond Journey Time One of the most significant British artists of the past decade, Darren Almond has established a richly complex, emotive, and flexible practice which centers on time and history, often focusing on the dark traces of industrialization from the last century but firmly rooted in present-day concerns. Raised in the coalmining heartland and transport hub of northwest England, Almond became a keen train-spotter as a youth and has since made numerous works involving railways, from station-style clocks enlarged into kinetic sculptures to a profusion of text works that take as their format the embossed metal signs affixed to rolling stock. The focus of Journey Time is one of his most ambitious projects in this field and one of the milestones of his career so far: a trilogy of films devoted to remarkable trains. Schwebebahn (1995) was shot in Germany, upside-down on the first monorail. Running in slow-motion, disorienting and defamiliarising, it conveys a sense of modernity’s aspirations being inverted in an era where much twentieth-century idealism now seems bankrupt. Geisterbahn (1997) was filmed in Vienna on an old-fashioned ghost train. Shot in an expressionistic, shadowy style and punctuated by skulls, the journey becomes a gothic metaphor for mortal life. The third and final part of the trilogy was shot in 2006 on a hugely ambitious railway line built by the Chinese government, leaving from Beijing and stretching 1,200km into Lhasa, striking deep into Tibet. At certain points this will be the highest railway in the world, necessitating oxygen masks for the passengers. Currently it is oxygenated by publicity, having attracted a storm of protests from Tibetans who fear it is intended to bring in large numbers of Chinese migrants to colonise the country. As such, this work extends Almond’s exploration of how transport’s symbolic function as a flashpoint for human struggle. Published to accompany Darren Almond’s exhibition of all three films in Essen, Germany, this handsome catalogue features a substantial selection of images from all three productions. Darren Almond was born in Wigan, England in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally in major exhibitions including in London at the Royal Academy shows “Apocalypse” (2000) and “Sensation” (1997–1999) in which he was the youngest artist to participate. Recent solo shows include “K21”, Kunsthalle Zurich, Tate Britain, Matthew Marks Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, The Renaissance Society, White Cube and the ICA. Almond’s work has been acquired for major public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Kramlich Collection. His work was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize. Co-published with Museum Folkwang, Essen. Darren Almond Journey Time Book design by Steidl Design 160 pages, four color throughout 11 x 13.7 in. / 28 x 35 cm Hardcover with dust jacket $ 65.00 / £ 35.00 / € 50.00 ISBN: 978-3-86521-383-9 PostScript Bild (9783865213839) 105
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