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The Hole Gallery, PictureBox, and ARTBOOK
invite you to join us tonight, Friday, June 21st
for the opening reception of the exhibition
Curated by Jesse Pearson
Closing date: Saturday, June 29
Featuring work by Tim Barber, Jordan Bennett, Ren Hang, Jerry Hsu, Sandy Kim, Sasha Kurmaz, Maggie Lee, Nicole Lesser, Aaron McElroy,
Lele Saveri, and Aurel Schmidt
Accompanied by a new book published by PictureBox
and edited by Jesse Pearson.
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Photograph by Sandy Kim.
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Nudity Today might have been more accurately called Nudity This Minute or Nudity Right This Very Second. It's a breezily made collection, an easily curated survey of a group of young photographers making art that involves images-in varying degrees of graphicness-of the naked human form. The artists featured in Nudity Today grew up amidst the changing moods and outlooks in photography that were engendered by a heady era that witnessed the explosion of the snapshot aesthetic, the birth of digital photography, and the proliferation of online networks and outlets for sharing and exhibiting images. As those things have shaped the means of photography, the continuing relaxation (or the decay, if that's really the way you want to feel about it) of social mores has transformed its ends. So what we have running loose in the world is a veritable horde of emerging photographic artists who don't mind getting nude, being nude, and doing things in the nude; models the same age who are just as-if not more-comfortable being undressed and performing for the camera; and democratically accessible tools of production and distribution. And so, voilą: A perfect storm of youthful boobs, butts, pussies, and dicks in a seemingly never-to-abate gust of photos.
Edited by Jesse Pearson
Published by PictureBox
Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in., 208 pgs, 200 color.
ISBN: 9780985159573
U.S. $34.95
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