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Portraits by Roderick Buchanan

Essays by Jan Verwoert and introduced by Steven Bode

Portraiture has always been a feature of Roderick Buchanan's photographic and film and video work. This survey publication, released to coincide with the artist's solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London (23 September 13 November 2005) traces a number of portrait pieces produced over the course of a career that now spans almost sixteen years.

Encompassing classic early photo-series such as Coast to Coast Dennistoun, and Yankees (1996) and ending on recent film works such as Harriers (2002) and History Painting (2005), the book presents a collection of faces, highlighting Buchanan's preoccupation with the codes and iconographies of cultural allegiance and identity and his equally insistent focus on the individual subject as part of a wider field of social and cultural relationships.

Featuring a keynote essay by the acclaimed art critic Jan Verwoert and an introduction by Steven Bode, Portraits acts as a stimulating visual primer to Buchanan's consistently engaging and richly rewarding practice. In amongst its vivid procession of memorable portrait images, it also introduces a number of new historical/genealogical pieces that extend the definition of the (time-based) portrait into more social/conceptual areas.

Published in association with the British Council.
130 x 165 mm portrait
Pbk
204pp full colour

Associated Projects with Roderick Buchanan:

30Km, 2003