Tracey Emin: My Photo Album

Hardback

Main Details

Title Tracey Emin: My Photo Album
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tracey Emin
By (author) FUEL
By (author) Damon Murray
By (author) Stephen Sorrell
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:156
Dimensions(mm): Height 220,Width 180
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
Photographs: collections
ISBN/Barcode 9780956896247
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher FUEL Publishing
Imprint FUEL Publishing
Publication Date 22 April 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Tracey Emin: My Photo Album is a journey through the artist's life using photographs from her personal collection. Edited from the albums she has kept from an early age, this visual autobiography contains some amazing images: Tracey sharing a pram as a baby with her twin Paul, her bus-pass photo aged fourteen, a 'glamour' shoot as a semi-naked art student, her early successes as an artist, through to hanging out with superstars such as David Bowie and Ronnie Wood. Perhaps more than any other artist working today, Tracey Emin's work is grounded in the personal experiences and events of her life. In these poignant photographs we can examine this crossover: the moments that have shaped her, and influenced her works: from her family life to the pivotal Young British Artist movement of the 1990s. The design of the book resembles a photo album, with Tracey's handwritten captions and notes accompanying the photographs. Virtually all of the 283 images have never been published before. Taken on 35mm film, they have an intimate, visceral quality. By turn tender and extrovert, they simultaneously document both the blossoming of an artist and a unique period in art history, from a completely singular viewpoint.