James Wilson
176 pages
Published: August 4, 2020
Non-Fiction / Art & Architecture
Hardcover: 9781773101880 $40.00
Published by Goose Lane Editions with James Wilson Photography
There's something strange, interesting, unsettling yet wonderfully compelling about these portraits, which reveal perhaps more than they should.
"The same stage, but different actors," explains Wilson. "There is something interesting to me about separating people from their environment, about keeping the focus on the individual."
Published: August 4, 2020
Non-Fiction / Art & Architecture
Hardcover: 9781773101880 $40.00
Published by Goose Lane Editions with James Wilson Photography
There's something strange, interesting, unsettling yet wonderfully compelling about these portraits, which reveal perhaps more than they should.
"The same stage, but different actors," explains Wilson. "There is something interesting to me about separating people from their environment, about keeping the focus on the individual."
James Wilson’s studio portraits capture subjects from all walks of life. They document soldiers and street people, builders and bakers, artists and labourers. There is an intimate intensity in his photographs, which together form a timeless collage of life and faces from the early twenty-first century.
Wilson’s portraits are also the product of a purposeful gaze, distinctive observations in black-and-white. All window-lit, all photographed in his studio, all with the same black background, these photographic portraits open a door into the worlds and at times the unguarded emotions of the individual subjects.
Wilson’s portraits are also the product of a purposeful gaze, distinctive observations in black-and-white. All window-lit, all photographed in his studio, all with the same black background, these photographic portraits open a door into the worlds and at times the unguarded emotions of the individual subjects.
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James Wilson has worked as a photographer for more than forty years, using large format cameras, both film and digital. Wilson is best known for his landscapes, still lifes, and black and white portrait studies. His work has been the subject of fifteen solo exhibitions and has been featured in numerous group exhibitions. His photographs are also included in many corporate, private, and public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and Canadian Embassies and Consulates in Europe, North Africa, and the United States.
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