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The Fourth Wall | 
 enlarge | Creator: Amy Arbus
Publisher: Welcome Books
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 498355
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 11.2 x 1
ISBN: 1599620448
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2092
EAN: 9781599620442
ASIN: 1599620448
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Condition: NEW FACTORY SEALED (MB) ISBN:9781599620442
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Product Description
What happens when a performing actor leaves behind his lines, staging, sets, and lighting, and steps beyond the fourth wall? For three years, Amy Arbus has been exploring this question in a series of dramatic portraits of celebrated actors, both on and off Broadway. Fully costumed but stripped of their context, Arbus's actors remain in character as they step outside the fiction of theater into the reality of the world beyond. Staged in anonymous public spaces--in theater lobbies, on city streets, in parks, and in stage door alleys--Arbus's images achieve an unexpected blend of spectacle and high art; formality and sontaneity; vulnerability and pretense.
Collected in The Fourth Wall are some of the modern stage's most gifted actors, including Alan Cumming in Cabaret, John Malkovitch in Lost Land, Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio, Ed Harris in Wrecks, Cherry Jones in Doubt, Christine Ebersol in Grey Gardens, and Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton in The Coast of Utopia. Actors are included from such successful and ambitioud productions as Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Color Purple, to name but a few. Portraits are accompanied by synopses of the plays as well as quotes from a number of the actors portrayed.
In 2006's critically acclaimed book On the Street, Arbus focused her lens on those who dressed to express themselves--now she turns her attention to those who dress to become someone else. The result is a collection of potent photographs that pay remarkable tribute to contemporary theater and the performers who bring fantasy to life.
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Better than Expected! July 14, 2008
Having previewed many of these photographs in New York magazine over the years, I was pleasantly surprised by how amazing they looked in the book! Amy Arbus has an incredible talent for hitting on the characters true essence. Stunning, stunning work!
Beautiful portraits July 6, 2008
Beautiful portraits in a perfect printed grayscale. I like the way the actors were taken out the scene and become reallife people
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