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Author Meyer, Kyle, 1985- photographer, artist, interviewee.

Title Interwoven / Kyle Meyer ; editing, Chelsea Weathers.

Publication Info. Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books ; New York, NY : Yossi Milo, [2020]
©2020

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Oversize Stacks  779.23 M575i 2020    ---  Available
Description 219 pages : color illustrations ; 35 x 28 cm
still image sti rdacontent
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes Interview / Kyle Meyer & Andy Campbell.
Summary "Swazi craft meets digital photography in Kyle Meyer's astounding woven photos of a silenced LGBTQ community. Kyle Meyer (born 1985) has worked between eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and New York City since 2009, creating richly tactile artworks as conceptually complex as they are visually lush. In this debut monograph, Meyer's portraits from his Interwoven series fuse digital photography with traditional Swazi crafts, giving voice to silenced members of the LGBTQ community. Tension between the necessity of the individuals to hide their queerness for basic survival and their desire to express themselves openly inform both the subject and the means of fabricating Meyer's unique works. Each piece from the Interwoven series is labor-intensive, taking days or sometimes weeks to complete. Meyer often photographs his subjects wearing a traditional headwrap made from a vibrantly colored textile. He then produces a print of the portrait and shreds it, together with the fabric from the headwrap, weaving the strips into patterned three-dimensional works. The final portrait presents each person's individuality while using the fabric as a screen to protect their identity. Included in each copy of this book is a unique piece of fabric torn from the remnants of the Interwoven project, intended to serve as a bookmark."--www.bookdepository.com.
Subject Portrait photography -- Eswatini.
Gay men -- Eswatini -- Portraits.
Fabric pictures -- Eswatini.
Art, Swazi -- 21st century.
Weaving in art -- 21st century.
Meyer, Kyle, 1985-
Fabric pictures. (OCoLC)fst00919505
Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
Portrait photography. (OCoLC)fst01072259
Eswatini. (OCoLC)fst01214603
Genre/Form Portraits. (OCoLC)fst01423831
Portraits.
Added Author Weathers, Chelsea, editor.
Campbell, Andrew Raymond, 1982- interviewer.
ISBN 1942185685 hardcover
9781942185680 hardcover

 
    
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