May 2015
Edition of 250
15x20 cm
62 Pages
Coil Spiral
ISBN 9788894031966
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Designed by Milo Montelli

Notable for their curiously unsettling shabbiness, Catharine Maloney’s photographs are clearly testament to the author’s laissez faire attitude to perfection and technical mastery. By shooting with a medium format camera, scanning in the film and routinely tinkering with the images in Photoshop, the Texan-born artist then gets prints made cheaply and either draws on them or creates collages. They combine the coarse ingenuity of mixing and layering various media with an ambiguous and uneasy decontextualisation of objects and subjects. Peopling the images, figures can often appear multiple times within the same work, and superimpositions, doublings and reflections are all commonplace. So too are distortions in scale and perspective. All the long-held notions of space and temporality appear to collapse revealing photography’s limits and inherent contradictions. 
Tim Clark

Best Book of 2015 on Humble Arts Foundation
Best Book of 2015 on Thomas Sauvin’s list for Photo-eye
Best Book of 2015 on Gabriela Cendoya Blog

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