With startlingly honest and surprisingly intimate images, noted photographer Nicholas Sinclair documents the work of Franko B, one of today's most provocative performance artists. Infused with a strong sense of outrage, the photographs depict practices cultivated at the margins of the cultural, political, and social framework of contemporary society. It is high-risk art that uses the artist's own blood as a primary tool of expression. The intensity of the work demands an emotional response from the audience, and that response to the images is as important as the images themselves. With specific references to religion, homelessness, and AIDS, Franko B is a serious work of uncommon urgency, reminding readers of the fragility of the human body and the strength of the human spirit. This volume is strengthened with insightful commentary by art critic Stuart Morgan and curator Lois Keidan.

Franko B

Arts & Photography

Morgan, Stuart

Keidan, Lois

Sinclair, Nicholas

Individual Artists

Black Dog Publishing

These collaborations between a former fashion photographer and performance artists neither documents or portrays the body in contemporary art. Instead they tell us something more. The work presented provokes debate by exposing the body in all its diversities, difficulties and desires. Work included in "Exposures" come from a variety of different artists, such as: Oreet Ashery; Franco B.; Mat Fraser; Doran George; Ronald Fraser Munro; Joshua Soafer; and Aaron Williamson.

Exposures

Vason, Manuel

Athey, Ron

Photography & Video

<p>For the past 20 years, Chinese artist Sheng Qi has been creating remarkable works of art in diverse media, approximately 100 of which are showcased here in full color. A prevalent theme in his work has been the study of the body: of body language and its culture. (When he left Beijing in 1989, he cut the little finger off of his left hand and buried it in a flower pot.) Since returning to China after completing his artistic studies in London, he has been selected to participate in the Nippon International Performance Festival, and the recent International Center of Photography exhibition, <i>Between Past and Future</i>, where his photographic work was selected for the cover of the exhibition catalogue. He is also one of the few artists in China to concern himself with AIDS and to become involved in local awareness campaigns.</p>

Sheng Qi: Madness, Appropriation

Hanru, Hou

Du, Huang

Ming'an, Wang

Blue Kingfisher

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