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Tacita Dean<br />
Wolfgang Tillmans<br />
Jason Schmidt<br />
Artists<br />
Artists is an ambitious exercise in catalogue some of the most important and exciting artists working today. For the past<br />
six years Jason Schmidt has photographed international contemporary artists in their studios, galleries, biennales and<br />
wherever the artist happens to be making work. More than a series of classic portraits, Schmidt’s insistence in<br />
photographing the artists at work or in their environments allow for an intimate glimpse into the creative processes<br />
behind the artworks themselves.<br />
Additionally, in texts which accompany the photographs, the artists speak in their own words, putting themselves in the<br />
context of a particular place and within the larger picture of a personal body of work.<br />
Artists documents the incredibly heterogeneous practices of comtemporary artists today including painters (Ed<br />
Ruscha, Tracey Emin), photographers (Roe Ethridge, Andreas Gursky), Video artists (Aida Ruilova, Doug Aitken),<br />
sculptors (Liz Larner, Marc Quinn), installation artists (Maurizio Cattelan, Gregor Schneider), and artists who defy the<br />
categorical imperative of medium (Matthew Barney, Sophie Calle, Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince).<br />
There is no pretense toward forging a coherent international contemporary art scene. Each ot the 125 artist portraits<br />
collected here is its own self-contained world, specific to the artist’s mythology and methodology that inform and<br />
ultimately become their art.<br />
Jason Schmidt graduated from Columbia University in 1991 with a degree in Art History. His photographs have<br />
appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, and V Magazine among<br />
others. He lives and works in New York City. Artists is his first book.<br />
Jason Schmidt<br />
Artists<br />
Edited and with a foreword by Alix Browne and Christopher Bollen<br />
Book design by Greg Foley<br />
156 pages with 120 color plates<br />
12 x 12.2 in. / 30 x 31 cm<br />
Clothbound Hardcover<br />
US $ 65.00 / £ 35.00 / R 50.00<br />
ISBN 3-86521-302-2<br />
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-302-0<br />
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