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A01=Giuseppe Schillaci
Author_Giuseppe Schillaci
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AJ
COP=Italy
Format=FF
HMM=185
IMPN=Contrasto
ISBN13=9788869653193
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20130107
POP=London
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Contrasto
Subject=Photography & Photographs
WG=180
WMM=135

The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata

English

By (author): Giuseppe Schillaci

Magnum photographer Antoine D'Agata has become a little too intimate with the subject of his photo series. In order to get to know the seamy side of Cambodia, he goes to `the end of the end.' In Phnom Penh, he moves in with a drug-addicted prostitute named Lee, who not only allows D'Agata to photograph her, but shares her crack pipe and her bed with him as well. When she asks him what he really wants from her, he admits that he hopes the pictures will earn him money. D'Agata has been throwing himself into projects like this for twenty years now, despite the fact that he is blind in his right eye and myopic in his left. This has not stood in the way of his career as a photographer of the subclass. On the contrary, `It's the darkness that brought me up.' The film camera employs a similar observational yet alienating style, following the couple from up close while they spend weeks in a stuffy room, in voluntary confinement. The claustrophobic atmosphere of this documentary debut is interspersed with gruesome street shots and uncompromising photos by D'Agata, who has increasing doubts about his profession as a photographer. Journalist Philippe Azoury is worried and comes for a visit, forcing D'Agata to question his unorthodox working method. Together, they discuss the emotional life that underlies the photographer's work. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 180g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 185mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jan 2013
  • Publisher: Contrasto
  • Publication City/Country: London, Italy
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9788869653193
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