Morph
By: Polly Borland
Contributors: Phipps, Sibylla, writer of supplementary textual content; Ellis, Justine, editor; Rule, Dan, editor; Abdulrahim, Nadiah, editor; Brewer, Narelle, book designer; National Gallery of Victoria
Series: Perimeter Editions -- 039; Perimeter Editions -- 039.
Publisher: Perimeter Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9780648262862
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Photobooks; Specimens
Other titles: Lenticulars
Description: Published to coincide with her major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Polly Borland's new book Morph offers an incisive new vantage on the celebrated Australian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer's explorations of anthropomorphic soft-sculpture and abstracted portraiture. The new series of works - which were made in collaboration with model Sibylla Phipps, who also contributes a compelling psychoanalytic text to the book - serves as a dramatic, almost surrealistic expansion of Borland's visual language, with her attention to colour and reimagining of form coming to the fore. At once tender and troubling, the works that populate Morph, the artist's second book for Perimeter Editions, are poignantly human and pointedly not. Polly Borland is one of Australia's foremost photographic artists. Famed for her early editorial work and portraiture - which saw her photograph the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, Nick Cave, Donald Trump, Susan Sontag, Monica Lewinsky and Cate Blanchett for a host of clients such as The Guardian, The New York Times and The New Yorker - her art practice has seen her exhibit widely in Australia, the UK, Europe and the United States, including the major exhibition Polyverse at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, in late 2018. Her books include The Babies (2000), Bunny (2008), Smudge (2010) and YOU (Perimeter Editions, 2013).-Publisher's website.
Notes: This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Polyverse' at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, from September 28, 2018 to February 3, 2019.

The inserted booklet is titled: Lenticulars.

Editors: Justine Ellis & Dan Rule ; Design: Narelle Brewer ; Copy Editor: Nadiah Abdulrahim.

First edition of 700.

Exposed bind softcover.
Table of contents: title: A voice from inside the gimp suit -- Sibylla Phipps.