Ari Marcopoulos: Not Yet

Description

Ari Marcopolous' radical and raw aesthetic has been a huge influence in photography and visual culture since the 1980s. While his widely collected books feature specific themes or present his various photographic series, this will be the first monograph to cover his entire career to date and is a must-have for the culturally savvy and for art and photography lovers alike. This first time monograph featuring iconic, never-before-published, and new works by photographer Ari Marcopoulos is uniquely aligned with various cultural icons--writers, artists, musicians, and celebrities--who have personally curated chapters on various parts of Ari's career, revealing his enormous influence and impact on culture, visual pop culture, and photography.

Ari Marcopoulos is an artist whose photographs and films have been exhibited, collected, and published around the world. Robert Slifkin is an associate professor of fine arts at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. Catherine Taft is a writer and curator based in Los Angelese. Neville Wakefield is a curator and writer on contemporary art and culture.

"Some of Not Yet's images are windows into a New York of another era." -i-D Magazine "Dubbed Not Yet, the tome takes a look back at Marcopoulos' four-plus decades of raw, convention-breaking work and documents everything from skateboarding, snowboarding, and hip-hop to celebrities, artistic portraits and stark landscapes alike." -HYPEBEAST.COM "The joy of Not Yet is that it feels like a map of the artist's mind, taking along journeys into foreign and familiar worlds." -Crave Online "Not Yet is an expansive collection of his work, over 300 pages full of both iconic and never before published photographs, with the book being organized in an intimate way. Marcopoulos enlists some of his closest friends and family to curate chapters of his book, 'I wanted a point of view on my work to come from someone other than myself...I invited friends and peers of mine to select images, curating individuals chapters as if they were making a zine of my work like the ones I've been doing for decades'." -Musee Magazine "What ties [the photos] together is the Dutch artist's skewed take on the world: 'I photograph abstract things,' he says in the book's Q&A, 'but I also abstract the things I photograph.'" -Jack Crager, American Photo