Lynne Cohen – No Man’s Land

Description

“We need a good deal of persuading that environments as extraordinary as these actually exist in the real world. But they do, and for thirty years Lynne Cohen has been searching them out and recording them. No Man’s Land brings together more than 100 of the most powerful of these images in both duotone and colour from the 1970s up to the present day. Cohen began as a sculptor, but in 1971 turned to photography. Her work has certain affinities with Marcel Duchamp’s readymades in that she collects fragments of the real world photographically and turns them into found installations. Cohen’s photography has always been concerned with psychological, sociological, intellectual and political artifice and her later pictures reveal a preoccupation with deception, manipulation and control. These are images that force us to ask ourselves what kind of world we have made.” – Publisher’s Description

Published by

Thames & Hudson, New York

Preface by

Pierre Théberge and Willam A. Ewing

Essays by

Ann Thomas; Interview with Lynne Cohen conducted by William A. Ewing, Vincent Lavoie, Lori Pauli, and Ann Thomas

ISBN

0500 542406

Publication Year

2001

Number of Pages

Hardcover, 160

Illustrations

130 illustrations: 15 in colour, 99 in duotone