Jim Dine

Jim Dine: the Photographs, So Far (Vol. 1 - 4)

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references; Exhibition catalogue; Contents: v. 1 Heliogravures -- v. 2 Digital prints -- v. 3 Polaroids, chromogenics and gelatin silver prints -- v. 4 Text. Publisher Marketing: Jim Dine became truly excited about the possibilities of photography when he realized that the medium offered the opportunity to quickly and directly access his unconscious, something he seeks to do in all of his art-making. Regardless of which media Dine is working in, he maintains a familiar but ever-expanding repertory of images: tools, hearts and a torso of Venus, plus the more recent iconography of crows, skulls, a Pinocchio doll, and an odd-couple ape and cat. As with his paintings, sculptures and graphic work, for which he is better known, Dine seeks to record his physical and emotional presence concretely, not gesturally. The camera is but one of the many tools he has at his disposal for making such pictures. This refusal to privilege one method over another helps explain how, in the space of only six or seven years, Dine has managed to produce such a large number of haunting photographic images that remain consistent with the tenor of his art as a whole while expanding its technical repertoire and range of possibilities. Though he has been making art for over four decades, producing paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, as well as performance works, stage and book designs, poetry and even music, Dine has only been working with photography since 1996. Using heliogravure and digital ink-jet processes as well as conventional color and black-and-white photographic printing, Dine imbues his photographs with an intensity that is occasionally traumatic but invariably beautiful. This catalogue raisonn marks the first comprehensive publication on the photographs of Jim Dine. Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/2005 pg. 66 (EAN 9783865211194, Hardcover) New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 38 (EAN 9783882432404, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Dine, Jim Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Ohio in 1957, and has since become one of the most profound and prolific contemporary artists. Dine's unparalleled career spans fifty years and his work is held in numerous private and public collections. His books at Steidl include Birds (2001), The Photographs, so far (2003) and Hot Dream (52 Books) (2008). Contributor Bio:  Grundberg, Andy Grundberg is a former photography critic for The New York Times. Contributor Bio:  Livingstone, Marco Sarah Howgate is Contemporary Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. Barbara Stern Shapiro is Curator for Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts. Mark Glazebrook is a writer and curator and organized David Hockney's first retrospective in 1970. Edmund White is professor of the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University and the award-winning author of many books, including "A Boy's Own Story" and "Genet: A Biography. "Marco Livingstone is an art critic, curator, and author of "Hockney's People,"