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Catherine Chalmers

American Cockroach

By Baker, Steve & Marvin, Garry & Watson, Lyall & Chalmers, Catherine

Publishers Summary:
Catherine Chalmers's second Aperture monograph invites us to meditate on the pleasures and terrors of the common domestic pest, Periplaneta americana, also known as the American cockroach. In three different series of photographs, "Infestations," "Imposters," and "Executions," Chalmers challenges us to reconsider how we distinguish between creepy infestation and acceptable nature. With a slight B-movie quality, the images push us to think carefully about the ways in which we determine some creatures to be lovable and others best squashed under a shoe.

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978-1-93178-839-7
Publisher
Aperture


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Library Journal

Reviewed on November 29, 2004

It might seem odd--if not implausible--for an artistic medley of photographs to take the reviled cockroach as subject and inspiration. But the artwork and essays in this slim volume actually manage to humanize these "flat, twitchy, squishy, spine-legged" but often innocuous pests. Chalmers unleashes a remarkable creative energy on her spindly subjects, often gussying up their carapaces with paint and ev...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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