{"product_id":"scene-by-alex-majoli","title":"Scene by Alex Majoli","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor eight years and across several continents, Alex Majoli has been photographing events and non-events. Political demonstrations, humanitarian emergencies, and quiet moments of everyday life. What holds all these images together is a sense of theatre. A sense that we are all actors, all playing the parts that history and circumstance demand of us. Majoli’s photographs result from his own performance. Entering a situation, he and his assistants slowly go about setting up a camera and lights. This activity is a kind of spectacle in itself, observed by those who will eventually be photographed. Majoli begins to shoot, offering no direction to the people before his camera. This might happen over twenty minutes. It might be an hour or so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerhaps the people adjust their actions in anticipation of the image to come. Perhaps they refine their gestures in self-consciousness. Perhaps they do not. The representation of drama and the drama of representation become one. The camera flash is instantaneous and much stronger than daylight. But all this light plunges the world into night, or moonlight. The world appears as an illuminated stage. Everything seems to be happening at the end of the day. Just when the world should be sleeping, it offers a heightened performance of itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe never really see people or places: we see the light they reflect. And the quality of that light affects how we understand them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- David Campany\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEssays by David Campany and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003eCorinne Rondeau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCo-published with Le Bal, Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--- ---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst English Edition \/ 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNote if signed\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781912339297\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDetails: Softcover , 10 x 15 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003einches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCondition: Shrink wrapped \/ Mint\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leica Store SF Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097357926715,"sku":"577481","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/3256\/2235\/files\/L1010131.jpg?v=1704825287","url":"https:\/\/camerawest.com\/products\/scene-by-alex-majoli","provider":"Camera West","version":"1.0","type":"link"}