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Steve Kahn: The Hollywood Suites

Steve Kahn: The Hollywood Suites

Lewallen, Connie
Ganz, James A.
Simms, Matthew

Hardcover

General PhotographyPhotographers

ISBN10: 3791357999
ISBN13: 9783791357997
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: Oct 30 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 3.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 11.30 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
This generously illustrated book chronicles Steve Kahn's The Hollywood Suites series, which is comprised of photos taken in rent-by-the-hour apartments in a run-down section of Hollywood from 1974 to 1977, featuring porn industry models and the architecture of the rooms themselves.

In 1974 the photojournalist and art photographer Steve Kahn began a series of provocative black-and-white Polaroids of porn-industry models posing in seedy Hollywood apartments. What began as an exploration of staged photography and portraiture evolved over the next three years into The Hollywood Suites, a multi-faceted conceptual project in which Kahn turned his lens away from the models to deconstruct their seemingly mundane and monotonous surroundings. Endlessly fascinating, Kahn's series touches on myriad themes including bondage, containment, isolation, and the poetics of absence. This volume includes more than 100 works arranged in chronological groupings based on the original Polaroid film sessions and features essays that offer a scholarly assessment of a groundbreaking work.

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