Margaret Salmon

Source book published on the occasion of the exhibition Margaret Salmon at Witte de With, 20 May to 19 August 2007.

Number of copies: 1000
Language: English
Texts by: André Bazin; Raymond Carver; Zoë Gray; Nicolaus Schafhausen; Bina von Stauffenberg.
Published by: WdW Publishers
Design: Kummer & Herrman
Format: 12.5 x 20 cm paperback
Number of pages: 80
Number of color illustrations: 16
Publication date: 19 May 2007
Price: 10 euro
ISBN: 978-90-73362-75-8

Margaret Salmon (1975, New York, USA) creates stylized portraits that weave together poetry and documentary. Focusing on individual characters in their everyday habitats, her slow-moving films capture the minutiae of daily life, infusing them with a certain grandeur. Salmon portrays the common struggle of ordinary people, constructing documents that represent characters in a social context. Her position is never aggressive nor intrusive, but balances intimacy with respectful distance, creating laconic yet moving works that are at once sober and lyrical, filled with a fragile sense of humanity.

Contents:
Introduction by Nicolaus Schafhausen
Portraits in Time: The Films of Margaret Salmon, by Bina von Stauffenberg
Interview with Margaret Salmon by Zoë Gray
Works
Everything Stuck to Him, by Raymond Carver
An Aesthetic of Reality: Neorealism, by André Bazin
Biography
List of Exhibitions
Bibliography
Authors

Distribution
The book is available at Witte de With and via the following distributors:
D.A.P., New York (USA only), online catalogue: www.artbook.com, e-mail dap@dapinc.com, phone +1 212 627 1999
Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK and Ireland only), online catalogue:www.cornerhouse.org, e-mail publications@cornerhouse.org, phone +44 161 2001503
Idea Books, Amsterdam, (The Netherlands and all other countries) online catalogue www.ideabooks.nl,
e-mail: idea@ideabooks.nl, phone: +31 (0)20 6226154