Beschreibung:
16 Pictures is the latest in a series of photobooks by American artist Robert Grosvenor (born 1937). Grosvenor's photography is an extension of the sculptural work he has produced since the mid-1960s: in both cases his concern is to explore the space between everyday objects, to convey the tangibility (and absurdity) of volume and to draw out the often comical, vulnerable, paradoxical or visually duplicitous quality of appearance (“they’re supposed to have a joke in them, or a trick,” he says of these works). Included here are color photographs of vehicles, scale models and ordinary objects. Sometimes blurry, sometimes overexposed, and very often brightly colorful, the photographs depict scenes that may be staged or chanced across. Grosvenor's photographs convey a gently humorous attention to the everyday and its precarity