{"product_id":"lise-sarfati-oh-man-hardcover","title":"Lise Sarfati: Oh Man - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLise Sarfati\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eDavid Campany\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOh Man is a series of seventeen large-format photographs, fifteen in color and two in black and white, created in Los Angeles from 2012 to 2013. Like Lise Sarfati's previous series \u003ci\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eShe\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eOn Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eOh Man\u003c\/i\u003e is also set in the urban landscape. In this new work Sarfati rejects the romantic picturesque. She continues to pursue a body of work which posesses a certain interior complexity and can neither be narrowed down to a singular or global perspective nor be perceived as an object. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarfati quotes Baudelaire regarding the series: \"in certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its Symbol.\" She invests the city in a personal and metaphoric way. She rethinks what already exists. A primal vitality, visceral, unrestrainable, arising from rootlessness--men walking and the radical indifference of their bodies--occupies the empty heart of Los Angeles. She creates an image which is always engaged in a discourse with the viewer, an image in which we can project ourselves yet also feel free. The whole series is bathed in a solar light. This luminous point of view acts as an illumination on the image as if to light our vision. Sarfati worked very precisely on the choice of this intense solar light: \"I worked on the distance to create an ambiguous link in the relationship between the man and the landscape. My images are large format but through their equilibrium allow the viewer total freedom to engage with the landscape or the human figure.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe figures in the photographs, characters like those she defined in her series \u003ci\u003eThe New Life, She\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e, are ghostly here. \u003ci\u003eOh Man\u003c\/i\u003e creates an uncanny feeling: the men are both anonymous and somehow familiar. They are filmed by surveillance cameras and become a detail of the virtual landscape. What J.G. Ballard, one of Lise Sarfati's references, concerning computerized surveillance systems calls: \"an Orwellian nightmare come true, but disguised as a public service.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOh Man\u003c\/i\u003e gives us the feeling that we could be downtown in any US megalopolis. The American urban landscape in Sarfati's photographs scrolls along, the warehouses like a long list of signs without affect: United States Post Office, NAB Sound, Toys, Clothing, Handbag, Cosmetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout her different series, Sarfati never ceases to interrogate herself on the void and the relationship between the man and the outside world. In\u003ci\u003eOh Man\u003c\/i\u003e we are swayed by the ambiguous sensation of the landscape, between the attraction to the void and the enjoyment of the space crossed by the walking man.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 13 x 11.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350487646457,"sku":"9783958291126","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ICIiG78Ye09783958291126.webp?v=1769786509","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lise-sarfati-oh-man-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}