In an early seminal experience for Malerie Marder, a family friend invited her to photograph her with her lover, naked in a hotel room. This set the tone for Marder’s work for the next decade. Her photographs of nudes are composed simply, her subjects sitting near the centre of the frame, often set against the bleak anonymity of motel rooms and vacant suburban homes, their impassive gazes almost daring a viewer to interpret their bodies.
Designed by Studio Frith and beautifully illustrated with more than 70 works by Marder, described by Charlotte Cotton in her introduction as an ‘episodic drama of adjacencies’, Carnal Knowledge also contains a preface by Gregory Crewdson, a text by novelist James Ellroy, short stories inspired by Marder’s works by A. M. Homes, Bruce Wagner and James Frey, as well as a written and photographic correspondence between Marder and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.
Malerie Marder lives and works in Los Angeles. Marder studied at Bard College with Stephen Shore, and with Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Nan Goldin at Yale University, where she won the Schicke-Collingwood Prize and John Ferguson Weir Award.
Malerie Mader: Carnal Knowledge
ISBN 9781900828307
Hbk, 12 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 77 color
U.S. $75.00 CDN $83.00
Published by Violette Editions
