{"product_id":"amir-zaki-building-and-becoming-hardcover","title":"Amir Zaki, Building and Becoming - 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\u003eAmir Zaki\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eWalter Benn Michaels\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eJennifer Ashton\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHyperrealist photographer Amir Zaki's new monograph covers 20+ years of photographic work, following his widely reviewed book \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks\u003c\/i\u003e. Includes an essay and interview.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA double gatefold sculptural monograph with no singular entry or exit and three spines, Amir Zaki, Building + Becoming opens to a full width of roughly 40 inches and brings multiple series into focus: suspended landscapes, rocks, carvings, and hyper-realist California beach architecture, which like his skateparks (also included), are uncannily quiet and devoid of people. \"I am looking for a kind of strangeness within the commonplace ... where something familiar and unfamiliar is initially welcoming yet alienating, using digital technology as a means to an end.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiterary critics Walter Benn Michaels and Jennifer Ashton discuss Zaki's manipulation of space through evenness, which is accomplished by creating a perfectly technically focused object: \"The point is not that the pictures overcome physical limits, but that they violate the logic of our eyesight.\" Referencing the history of landscape and modern photography in California (Edward Weston, Ansel Adams), Michaels and Ashton show that Zaki's insistence on marrying technology seamlessly with this tradition results in continuity, an \"addition through subtraction\" of the third-dimension. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eZaki has been interviewed for NPR online and featured or reviewed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as having been interviewed in \u003ci\u003eDezeen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWallpaper\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Order\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle Decor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHypebeast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGUP Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAramco World\u003c\/i\u003e. His last book, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Concrete\u003c\/i\u003e is in the top 50 in Skateboarding books and top 150 in Individual Photographer books on Amazon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmir Zaki\u003c\/b\u003e is a practicing artist who lives in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1999 and, since, has been regularly exhibiting nationally and internationally. Zaki has had over 30 solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries and has been included in over 50 group exhibitions in significant venues including The California Biennial: 2006 at the Orange County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Western Bridge in Seattle, the California Museum of Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art. Zaki's work is part of numerous public and private collections across the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), UCLA Hammer Museum, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has published three prior monographs (one -- California Concrete -- featuring a contribution by skateboarder Tony Hawk) and has been featured in Phaidon's survey \u003ci\u003eVitamin Ph\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the anthology \u003ci\u003eBoth Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Benn Michaels\u003c\/b\u003e is an American literary theorist and author of The Beauty of a Social Problem; Photography, Autonomy and Political Economy and Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism.\u003cb\u003eJennifer Ashton\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago whose writing and research focuses on poetics and 20th\/21st century American poetry. She is a founding member of the arts and politics journal, nonsite.org. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorrina Peipon\u003c\/b\u003e is an artist, writer, and curator who lives in Los Angeles.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 11.8 x 10.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47458911682813,"sku":"9781954600010","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Nm9WQjZuQkwzaHhvVWdyQnZ6WDBxdz09.webp?v=1777252717","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/amir-zaki-building-and-becoming-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}