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Harry Gruyaert TV Shots
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LastDodo number
2603415
Area
Books
Title
Harry Gruyaert TV Shots
subtitle
Literary collection
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Series / hero
Original title
Translator
Illustrator
Year
2007
Type
Print Run
First edition
Type of book
Number of pages
152
Number produced
Dimensions
19.7 x 28.7 cm
ISBN10
ISBN13
978-3-86521-375-4
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Country of publication
Details
Bilingual Edition in illustrated vinyl boards.
For his first serious body of work, Harry Gruyaert made photographs of distorted TV images, covering events such as the 1972 Munich Olympics to produce a distressed parody of the current affairs photostory. The work created controversy when exhibited (at the Robert Delpire Gallery in Paris in 1974), with its disrespectful assault on the culture of television and its radical challenge (both formally and in terms of content) to the conventions of press photography. Gruyaert views the work as the closest thing to journalistic photography he has ever made.
105 colour plates
(source: Steidl)