Battered (SIGNED)
Harri Pälviranta
Battered (SIGNED)
Photographs: Harri Pälviranta
Publisher: Kult Books
64 pages
Year: 2022
Price: 40 €
Comments: Perfect bound hard cover with a tipped in photograph, 29,5 x 29 cm. Signed by the photographer, edition of 300.
Assaults and street fights are everyday activities on weekend nights in Finland. People have a strong tendency to get rather intoxicated when partying and, once drunk, they are released from their inhibitions. Aggression turns into physical acts, to direct violence. There is a social awareness of this topic in Finland. The issue is recognized, and it is considered to be a severe social problem. But the discussion has mainly literal dimensions; it appears in news headlines, and it is discussed in seminars.
In the book Battered the Finnish Photographer Harri Pälviranta shows the real faces of street violence in Finland. In contrast to the stereotypic portrayals of male heroics and the worn-out attempts at shocking people, Pälviranta deals with the utmost banality inherent in violence.
Battered is a project first exhibited in December 2007, and since then pictures from the series have been appeared in tens of exhibitions around the world. Currently 15 pictures from the Battered series are exhibited in the National Museum of Contemporary Art MNAC in Lisbon as part of a bigger solo show by Harri Pälviranta. Even though vastly exhibited, Battered has never been available as a book. This situation is now corrected.
more books tagged »kult books« | >> see all
-
Mère
by Julie Scheurweghs
Euro 29 -
Roots (SIGNED)
by Eva Saukane
Euro 35 -
BLUEPRINT 2017–20
by Norman Behrendt
sold -
TRANSCENDENCE (ONLY 100 COPIES) LAST COPIES!
by Mikko Kerttula
Euro 45
more books tagged »colors« | >> see all
-
Punx
by Hubert Gloss
sold -
Red Shoes (Signed)
by Charles Johnstone
sold -
Harry Gruyaert (SIGNED)
by Harry Gruyaert
sold -
SAUL LEITER IN STILLNESS
by Yumiko Izu
sold -
Shapes of Light (Signed and Numbered to 300)
by David Nissen
sold -
The Present
by Paul Graham
Euro 150
more books tagged »portraits« | >> see all
-
Portraits
by Richard Avedon
sold -
Good Luck Hong Kong (Signed)
by Eric
sold -
Studio Photo Nationale (Signed and Nbd)
by Samuel Fosso
sold -
heads
by Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
sold -
Soul and soul
by Kiyoshi Suzuki
sold -
THE PARTY PORTFOLIO HONG KONG (EDT OF 100 SIGNED)
by Paul Bradshaw
Euro 38
more books tagged »finland« | >> see all
-
Twisted Tales - Road to Hope (Signed)
by Markus Henttonen
sold -
Ihminen pääosassa/ People in the Lead Role (SIGNED)
by Ismo Hölttö
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com