The first monograph by a celebrated photographer with an extensive
professional network is in high demand. An Embarrassment of Riches
will appeal to fashionistas, photography collectors, and performing
arts aficionados. In his debut book of photography, with a foreword
by one of the luminaries of NYC culture and entertainment, Adrian
Buckmaster's monograph presents a staggeringly beautiful collection
of portraits - a cross-section of humanity in all of its glorious
diversity, from the ordinary to the extraordinary and everything
in-between. Having spent his early years shooting commercial beauty
and fashion, Buckmaster soon shifted focus to more personal
projects, challenging conventional notions of beauty and
celebrating the eccentricities of those whom society might classify
as "misfits." Echoes of Buckmaster's early career remain, in the
form of exquisite costuming, make-up, and scenic design. Despite an
element of performance, there is an undeniable rawness to these
portraits, in which subjects are both aware of the camera's gaze
and sympathetically self-conscious, robing and disrobing, revealing
and concealing. Buckmaster's photographic genius is encapsulated in
his uncanny ability to fastidiously art direct while simultaneously
stripping away layers of formality and convention. Arranged in
three movements: Imposing, Revealing, and Inventing, this
collection progresses from traditional portraiture to increasingly
intimate portrayals, as subjects expose, create, and invent
themselves. Included in this endlessly varied spectrum of
characters are Burlesque performers, families, brides, lovers, and
all manner of tattoos and body piercings. There are classical
reclining nudes, reminiscent of Édouard Manet's Olympia or
Titian's Sleeping Venus, dancers with incredible physical strength
and dexterity, women costumed as peacocks and geishas, a
contortionist inside a trunk, even a green-skinned man, bejewelled
like an Indian deity. All of this and much more, An Embarrassment
of Riches is a joyful celebration of individuality that will leave
the reader mesmerised.
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