Stephen Milner
A Spiritual Good Time
Meteoro Editions — 2020
SFr. 32.00
Pages: 80
Edition: 1st Edition
Dimensions: 25 x 32 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 9780997503821
The source of the photographs in A Spiritual Good Time is from various surfing magazines published before 1990. The appropriated images from mass-printed surf culture is a meditation on the perpetual pursuit of pleasure. It is a blending of fear and desire within a sport that often focused on the heterosexual gaze, hyper-masculinity, localism and the gossamer tipped dream of all inclusiveness and spirituality. Through tight cropping and editing of the editorial tropes of surf photography, the images are re-contextualized into a loose narrative of the contradictory forces at play.
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