TODD DEUTSCH
Gamers

EDITOR: Domenico Quaranta
TEXTS: Domenico Quaranta, George Slade
LANGUAGE: english
RELEASE: January 2008

160 x 225 mm
ISBN: 978-88-903308-1-0
Euro 20,00
Todd Deutsch - Gamers is a photographic book that presents and explores the latest project from American artist Todd Deutsch. Gamers (2005 - ongoing) is a series of beautifully constructed photographs that casts an anthropological eye on the phenomenon of LAN parties, gatherings of videogamers who meet up in impromptu venues (basements, hotels, warehouses) to play their favorite games: World of Warcraft, Lineage, Grand Theft Auto... The book, which includes an interview with the artist and essays by the critics Domenico Quaranta and George Slade, is both a seminal work on an increasingly widespread subculture, and a publication of art criticism that explores the cultural and iconographic bases of this series of photographs, from religious imagery to the theme of cyborgs, to the recent phenomenon of Game Art.
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