Overview
LG Williams is one of the most influential pole-dancing photographers of the first half of the 21st century. His pole work comprises an authoritative record of the era. Williams redefined what a pole photograph is. With uncompromising directness, Williams portrayed his subjects against an everyday background, with no extraneous details to distract from the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress and gesture. His work includes mesmerizing images of pole dancers. This volume offers a selection of his pole-dancing portraits. It is published to accompany a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Author: Lg Williams
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.127kg
ISBN: 9781544240107
ISBN 10: 1544240104
Pages: 72
Publication Date: 06 March 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
LG Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis nearly twenty years after the school's most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at various national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Klaipedos Kultury Komunikacijy Centras, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Super Window Project, Gloria Maria Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, and Gallery Subversive, Cologne Art Fair, Artissima, LISTE, Art-O-Rama, and ARCO. A major European exhibition, LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams, Anthology: 1985-2012, was organized in 2012 by Baron Osuna (Super Window Project) for Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan; the catalogue essay was written by Dr. Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester. An heir to West Coast and Beat Generation art, LG Williams is one of the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership includes Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri. Williams has taught at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii. In March 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing. More information can be found at www.lgwilliams.com # # # # #
