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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Lickshot: A Photo Scrapbook

Lickshot: A Photo Scrapbook

Watts, Ben

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1568988389
ISBN13: 9781568988382
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 9.10 Depth: 10.90
Language: English
Cut up, collaged, crayoned, and tagged with markers, the photos feel less like fixed, flattened documents than littletime bombs about to explode.
Vince Aletti, Village Voice
It's no wonder our 2003 Ben Watts monograph, Big Up, sold out before it was even released. Watts is internationally known for bringing the frenetic verve of street photography to his diverse body of work. Whether on location for Vanity Fair, Elle, Rolling Stone, or Nike, Watts's camera captures a feeling of barely contained, youthful energy and sucks the raw essence out of his subjects. Watts has an uncanny ability to simultaneously put his subjects at ease and amp up their adrenaline. His working process has as much in common with the call-and-response patterns in hip-hop music as it does with the traditional conventions of photography. He is always ready to swap his professional camera for a Polaroid so that his subjects can see the photos immediately and tag them with shout-outs or trash talk. His photo shoots are like block parties where his subjects drop their guard to reveal an honest sense of self-pride, and love of life.

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