Carnal Knowledge
Malerie Marder
Violette Editions
English
Essays by Gregory Crewdson, James Ellroy, A. M. Homes, James Frey, Bruce Wagner, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Charlotte Cotton.
Hardback
176 pages
249 x 300 mm
2011
ISBN 9781900828307
This is the first collection of Marder’s works in print. A seminal early experience for Malerie Marder was when a family friend invited her to photograph her with her lover, naked and in the anonymous setting of a motel room. This set the tone for Marder’s work for the next decade. Her photographs of nudes are composed simply, her subjects sitting plainly near the center of the frame, often set against the bleak anonymity of motel rooms, their impassive gazes almost daring a viewer to interpret their bodies. Beautifully illustrated with more than 70 works by Marder – described by Charlotte Cotton in her introduction as an ‘episodic drama of adjacencies’ – Carnal Knowledge also contains a preface by Gregory Crewdson, a text by novelist James Ellroy, short stories inspired by Marder’s works by A. M. Homes, James Frey and Bruce Wagner, as well as a written and photographic correspondence between Marder and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
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About the Artist
Malerie Marder lives and works in Los Angeles. Marder studied at Bard College with Stephen Shore, and at Yale University with Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Nan Goldin, where she won the Schicke-Collingwood Prize and John Ferguson Weir Award. Her work is in several international collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York).
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About the Publisher
Established in London in 1995 by Robert Violette – recognized by Wallpaper* magazine in their 15th-anniversary issue as one of 150 international ‘movers, shakers and makers of the last 15 years’ – Violette Editions is an independent publishing imprint for new editorial projects and books on the contemporary visual arts, with an emphasis on first books by artists, collections of artist writings and innovative projects that push the limits of book design and fabrication. Violette Editions has also created, produced and advised on original editorial projects for leading brands, institutions and galleries in the arts and fashion, product design and even gaming.
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