Anne Collier
Woman With A Camera (35mm)
Book Signing
Saturday, January 16, 2010, 5-7 PM
Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to present a book launch and signing for Woman With a Camera (35mm), a new artist’s book by Anne Collier. Please join us and the artist for a reception on Saturday, January 16, 2010 from 5-7 PM. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets in New York City.
Woman With a Camera (35mm) consists of eighteen consecutive film stills taken from the trailer of the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, in which Faye Dunaway plays a fashion photographer who experiences visions of real-life murders while on photo shoots. In Collier's re-photographed presentation, Dunaway slowly lowers her Nikon in a gesture of stunned horror, casting a disquietingly direct gaze at the viewer/reader, who cannot help but feel implicated in this new, more generalized scenario in which the camera becomes a symbol for looking. With an essay by Tom McDonough.
Published by Hassla Books, retails for $25 and is available both in store and online here. Please contact the bookstore by phone at 212-925-0325 or by email at orders @ printedmatter.org to arrange signed copies for those who cannot attend.
Anne Collier’s work has recently been presented in one-person shows at Artpace, San Antonio (2009), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2008), Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2007). Since 2001, she has exhibited in galleries in London, Madrid, Berlin, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Collier studied at CalArts and UCLA, California. She was born in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in New York.
Hassla Books is an independent publishing house with a focus on art and photography that specializes in small, low-run artist books that feature the work of both emerging and established artists. Hassla Books was founded in 2007 by David Schoerner and is now based in New York City.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists' publications.
Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, Tekserve, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals worldwide.