One step from eden violette7/4/2023 Recent diptychs of horses and rose bushes refer to the viewing of early stereographic prints and explore the potential for photography to reveal uncanny perspectives on a subject. Her well-known later studies of adolescent girls uncomfortably caught in the flash of the camera in domestic settings draw attention to the staged relationship between model, photographer and location. These provocative sites have been explored through her practice over the years, in particular the couches that, in Jones’s images, show visible signs of the imprint of the patients who had reclined upon them during consultation. Jones first gained notice in the late 1990s for her photographs taken in psychoanalysts’ consulting rooms. The sequence of images chosen and arranged by the artist specifically for this publication is informed by Jones’s interest in how we see and represent her chosen subjects, using tropes from the stereograph, the double, the still life and portraiture. This book brings together work from a 15-year period, including many pieces never previously published, and looks at the themes and concerns that have remained constants in her work. Sarah Jones’s photographs address established pictorial genres and our associated expectations by paring back space, subject and gesture. ‘Her photographs are rich with colour and psychological tension, and fixated upon hair, identity and home…She is deeply serious, sees life with a Technicolor, X-ray vision all her own.’ – A M Homes, frieze What the viewer is offered by these choices is evidence of an engagement with the world, a materiality through and against which life might be given shape.’ – Michael Archer, Artforum ‘Jones is very much in command of her subject matter, controlling the placement and relationship of elements, if only through decisions about framing and focal plane. The first major monograph on this artist features essays by Brian Dillon and David Campany, as well as a conversation between the artist and A M Homes. Published in October 2013 by Violette Editions
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