- Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen was born in
New York City ,New York ,USA in 1950.He has lived in Johannesburg South Africa Since the 1970's. Beginning by documenting the small dorps or villages of rural South Africa, Ballen’s photography moved on in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s to their inhabitants; through the late 1990’s Ballen’s work progressed. By the mid 1990’s his subjects began to act where previously his pictures however troubling fell firmly into the category of documentary photography, his work then moved into the realms of fiction. His third book Outland produced by Phaidon Press in 2000 was the result.In the fall of 2005, Phaidon press produced its second book by the artist, entitled "Shadow Chamber". The book focuses on the interactions between the people, animals, and or objects that inhabit Ballen’s unique image space. Ballen’s recent work enters into a new realm of photography—the images are painterly and sculptural in ways not immediately associated with photographs.
Published books
*"Shadow Chamber", 2005
*"Fact or Fiction", 2003
*"Outland", 2001
*"Cette Afrique', 1997
*"Platteland", 1996
*"Dorps: Small towns of South Africa", Clifton Publications; 1st ed edition (1986)
*"Boyhood", 1979Awards
*Art Directors Club Award Photography - 2006
*Selma Blair Witch Project - New York Times Magazine, October 31st 2005
*Top 10 Exhibition,Matthew Higgs , Artforum-2004
*Citigroup Prize, finalist, UK - 2002
*Photographer of the Year,Rencontres d' Arles - 2002
*Top 10 Exhibition, Vince Aletti, Artforum - 2002
*PhotoEspana, Best Photographic Book of the Year, Spain - 2001
*Photo-eye, Best Documentary Title, Best Photography Books of 2001
*Sani Festival, Best Solo Exhibition, Greece, 2000
*Special mention: UNICEF Photo of the Year 2001Museum collections
*Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA
*Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
*Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
*Durban Museum, South Africa
*Fotomuseum, Munchen, Germany
*Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
*Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa
*Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
*Louisiana Museum, Denmark
*Maison Europene de la Photographie, France
*Musee Nicephore Niepce, France
*Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark
*Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi, Belgium
*Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
*Museo nazionale Della Fotographia, Italy
*Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
*Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
*Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
*National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
*Spencer Art Museum, Kansas, USA
*Stejelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*Victoria and Albert Museum, London, EnglanExternal links
*http://www.rogerballen.com
* [http://www.artnet.com/awc/roger-ballen.html Roger Ballen catalogue in artnet's "Artist Works Catalogues"]
*http://www.christiandam.com
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