Monographs
Monographs Such AppetiteLittle Brown Mushroom, 2013Peeking into the combustible sublime of America’s outer-urban colonies, Such Appetite pairs Charlie White’s intimate study of a teenage girl with poems by Stephanie Ford in a twenty-first century meditation on beauty and banality, adolescence and sprawl. [Acquire]  Charlie White, American MinorJRP | Ringer, 2009American Minor delves into an important and ongoing theme in White’s work–the American teen, and all that goes into its manufacture. White tackles the taboos of nascent sexuality in the American teen girl–both the vulnerability of that sexuality as a topic and the ruthlessness with which it is exploited when it goes unexamined. Cataloging studio archives, film stills, animation stills and scripts, and using images culled from White’s two-year study of one teenager, archives of magazine covers featuring iconic blonde models, stills from his first 35mm film and his photographic comparative study of teens and transgendered people, American Minor presents White’s ongoing and never before-seen studies of the American teen subject as both image and idea. American Minor is a bold excavation of the sociosexual forces that surround us all. [Acquire]  Charlie White, MonstersPowerHouse Books, 2004Monsters catalogs White’s photographic work from 1999 to 2006 in full detail. In series such as In a Matter of Days (1999) and Understanding Joshua (2001), White created monsters that stand as surrogates for human fragility and the internal demons that haunt our experiences of self and other. In And Jeopardize the Integrity of the Hull (2003), White’s work began to critique photography’s role in popular culture by mimicking and heightening the veneer of the commercial image to reveal the tension below the gloss. White’s most recent series, Everything is American (2006), reveals the violence-tinged eroticism of the American psyche through portraits of both historic and mythic figures. From assaulting scenes to meditative studies, White’s powerful, disturbing, and revelatory photographs create fiction to understand reality and reconsider history to critique the present. [Acquire]  Charlie White: Everything is AmericanDomus Artium, 2006Published on the occasion of White’s solo exhibition at Domis Artium in Salamanca Spain, CHARLIE WHITE offers a careful overview of his “Evrything is American” series, 2006. The catalog contain 10 unique essays by critic Jan Tumlir, and detialed illustrations of each of the ten works. This Everything is American series reveals the violence-tinged eroticism of the American psyche through portraits of both historic and mythic figures. From assaulting scenes to meditative studies, White’s powerful, disturbing, and revelatory photographs create fiction to understand reality and reconsider history to critique the present. [Acquire]  And Jeopardize the Integrity of the HullTDM Paris, 2003And Jeopardize the Integrity of The Hull is a limited edition book that catalogues White’s 2003 series of the same name. Created in the fashion of a children’s board book, this publication features heavy gloss reproductions of the series’ ten photographs on heavy cardboard stock. [Acquire]  Charlie White PhotographsGoliath, 2002White’s first monograph, this publication includes three complete series from 1996 to 2001. With an introduction by Ronald Jones, essays by Annabel Chong, William Deverell and Fred Alan Wolf, and an interview with artist Lisa Anne Auerbach. [Acquire]  Hysteric 4Hysteric Glamour, 2001This unique book offers 50 images from White’s 1996 pornographic series “Femalien,” which was first published in Cheri magazine. The book is part of an ongoing series in which photographers publish a lesser-known project in its entirety. The book series includes Inoue Seiryu, Cindy Sherman, Jack Pierson, and others. Hysteric 4 contains the only reproductions of this entire photographic project, which was exhibited through the vending of Cheri magazine at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1996. [Acquire] |