Richard Hamilton 'Polaroid Portraits' Vol. 4 2001
Title: Polaroid Portraits Vol. 4
Authors: Edited by Richard Hamilton
Publisher: Stuttgart ; London ; Reykjavik : Edition Hansjörg Mayer
Publication date: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 72
Condition: Near Fine. Small chip to lower left corner of dust jacket. Otherwise near fine.
First edition of the fourth volume of Richard Hamilton’s important polaroid portraits series in which Hamilton invited various artists to make a photographic portrait of him. This volume includes portraits of Hamilton by Max Bill, Shigeo Fukuda, Pol Bury, Maro Merz, Robert Indiana, Hans Haacke, Ilya Kabakov, Ben Vautier, Ecke Bonk, Dennis Hopper, John Baldessari, etc. Starting in 1968, Richard Hamilton asked artists he met to photograph him with a Polaroid camera. Once he had collected 32 photographs, they were published in one volume, the first in 1972. The project ultimately spanned four volumes, with the final volume published in 2001. The project was exhibited in full at Ikon Gallery in 2001.
Richard Hamilton was one of the founders of Pop Art, and instrumental in defining its objectives and ethos. His innovative visual combinations in the 1950s encapsulated the dynamic energy of emerging technologies like television, vacuum, and radio. Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, glamorous, gimmicky, and representative of Big Business. Despite Andy Warhol being more well-known, it was Hamilton who laid Pop Art's foundation and outlined its principles.
Title: Polaroid Portraits Vol. 4
Authors: Edited by Richard Hamilton
Publisher: Stuttgart ; London ; Reykjavik : Edition Hansjörg Mayer
Publication date: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 72
Condition: Near Fine. Small chip to lower left corner of dust jacket. Otherwise near fine.
First edition of the fourth volume of Richard Hamilton’s important polaroid portraits series in which Hamilton invited various artists to make a photographic portrait of him. This volume includes portraits of Hamilton by Max Bill, Shigeo Fukuda, Pol Bury, Maro Merz, Robert Indiana, Hans Haacke, Ilya Kabakov, Ben Vautier, Ecke Bonk, Dennis Hopper, John Baldessari, etc. Starting in 1968, Richard Hamilton asked artists he met to photograph him with a Polaroid camera. Once he had collected 32 photographs, they were published in one volume, the first in 1972. The project ultimately spanned four volumes, with the final volume published in 2001. The project was exhibited in full at Ikon Gallery in 2001.
Richard Hamilton was one of the founders of Pop Art, and instrumental in defining its objectives and ethos. His innovative visual combinations in the 1950s encapsulated the dynamic energy of emerging technologies like television, vacuum, and radio. Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, glamorous, gimmicky, and representative of Big Business. Despite Andy Warhol being more well-known, it was Hamilton who laid Pop Art's foundation and outlined its principles.
Title: Polaroid Portraits Vol. 4
Authors: Edited by Richard Hamilton
Publisher: Stuttgart ; London ; Reykjavik : Edition Hansjörg Mayer
Publication date: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 72
Condition: Near Fine. Small chip to lower left corner of dust jacket. Otherwise near fine.
First edition of the fourth volume of Richard Hamilton’s important polaroid portraits series in which Hamilton invited various artists to make a photographic portrait of him. This volume includes portraits of Hamilton by Max Bill, Shigeo Fukuda, Pol Bury, Maro Merz, Robert Indiana, Hans Haacke, Ilya Kabakov, Ben Vautier, Ecke Bonk, Dennis Hopper, John Baldessari, etc. Starting in 1968, Richard Hamilton asked artists he met to photograph him with a Polaroid camera. Once he had collected 32 photographs, they were published in one volume, the first in 1972. The project ultimately spanned four volumes, with the final volume published in 2001. The project was exhibited in full at Ikon Gallery in 2001.
Richard Hamilton was one of the founders of Pop Art, and instrumental in defining its objectives and ethos. His innovative visual combinations in the 1950s encapsulated the dynamic energy of emerging technologies like television, vacuum, and radio. Hamilton described Pop Art as popular, transient, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, glamorous, gimmicky, and representative of Big Business. Despite Andy Warhol being more well-known, it was Hamilton who laid Pop Art's foundation and outlined its principles.
