Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool (UM YEAH ARTS)

Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool (UM YEAH ARTS)

The Swimming Pool is a new photographic essay from California-based street photographer Deanna Templeton (born 1969) that departs from her usual style to offer an expressive, intimate view of the human form underwater. The series was born after an impromptu nude swimming-pool shoot of husband and artist Ed Templeton, which spurred an eight-year journey in the study of light, expression and the enigma of water. Shooting entirely on color and black-and-white film and Polaroid, Templeton sent friends into the pool to be photographed in their truest form. Unlike her street photography, in which subjects were often strangers, Templeton found that creating these portraits required more intimacy and connectionâ€•a feeling that is apparent throughout every image in the series, which show strong, liberated individuals, confident and at ease in their most beautiful and vulnerable moments. As Ed Templeton writes in his afterword to this volume, "the nude swimmer is floating in a void of quiet solitude, the gentle pressure of being underwater enclosing her form like a baby in a womb and nothing exists outside of this world. A lone figure amidst a sea of blues and greys and frenetic sunlight performing a solitary dance for the photographer above, choosing movements and directions, twisting and swooping, contorting and expelling breaths painting a picture of form and light together." The Swimming Pool offers a deep and inspiring view of the human form.
Country USA
Manufacturer Um Yeah Arts
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-06-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781942884002

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Um Yeah Arts
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-06-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781942884002

Deanna Templeton: The Swimming Pool (UM YEAH ARTS)

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