Teleplay Part. 1
Catharine Maloney
Skinnerboox
English
Text by Tim Clark
Coil Spiral
150 x 200 mm
62 Pages
2015
ISBN 9788894031966
Notable for their curiously unsettling shabbiness, Catharine Maloney’s photographs are clearly testament to the author’s laissez faire attitude to perfection and technical mastery. By shooting with a medium format camera, scanning in the film and routinely tinkering with the images in Photoshop, the Texan-born artist then gets prints made cheaply and either draws on them or creates collages. They combine the coarse ingenuity of mixing and layering various media with an ambiguous and uneasy decontextualisation of objects and subjects. Peopling the images, figures can often appear multiple times within the same work, and superimpositions, doublings and reflections are all commonplace. So too are distortions in scale and perspective. All the long-held notions of space and temporality appear to collapse revealing photography’s limits and inherent contradictions.
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About the Artist
Catharine Maloney is an American photographer and children’s art teacher. She earned an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2009. She has exhibited her work in Los Angeles, New York, Moscow, Paris, and Dubai. In 2014, she was chosen for Foam Magazine’s Talent Issue. Her lesson on creating chaos in the photographic printing processes appears in The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014). In February 2019 she has a collage based show at Washer/Dryer Projects in Utah.
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About the Publisher
Skinnerboox is a publishing house focused on contemporary photography and visual arts.
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