Jack Pierson - The Hungry Years (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2017

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'The Hungry Years' collects Jack Pierson’s 1980s’ photographs, which have increasingly captured the attention of the art world since they were first published as a collection in 1990.

Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour.

Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson’s work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian. Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession, and absence, Pierson’s subject is ultimately, as he states, “hope.”'The Hungry Years' collects Jack Pierson’s 1980s’ photographs, which have increasingly captured the attention of the art world since they were first published as a collection in 1990. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour. Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson’s work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian. Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession, and absence, Pierson’s subject is ultimately, as he states, “hope.”

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

Damiani, Bologna, Italy. 2017. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover binding with tipped-in print (as issued). 210 x 243 mm. 104 pages. Photos: Jack Pierson. Text: Eileen Myles. Text in English.

Fantastic photo and artist book by Jack Pierson - in perfect condition.

Jack Pierson (born 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts) is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well-known celebrities and models, including Michael Bergin, Naomi Campbell, Snoop Dogg, Massimiliano Neri, Brad Pitt, and Antonio Sabato Jr. Pierson is openly gay. Pierson curated a show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2006 titled "The Name of This Show Is Not: Gay Art Now." He had both gay and straight, established and emerging artists present their works.