# The Shabbiness of Beauty

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $50.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
- **Product URL:** https://go.cosimo.shop/r/gAAAAABqzpj8yMeEtTT_otRGSpUAwXzYq19YflU6NLiR4ActU5_vuOIbUgequuLlbyElnwxuO8VjyzEvLQci14k_heK8lMpoSOwcXdvoSEtETOSvAkVy2SHsZl0WLhgaKC1y9x4UUdq8NErKwaLgxDmDWvFxG2H7pjgL8_mDmuMC7iCsNxad4WhtBivNMRG5a26vad7HJwAxVHihgX7dJ8XiuAwFgDaHBTIs16iLnvr5tXS6DH2TITP-2kaoLV6vk4PTlLqKyYD02BiPHU7nYNa9VN61C9jVXocN6jg0D-ZwqNw1hTeCuorrD58Rzfx_rxvPslixipLs_V0HJpVwiD62BUBHDs29ZF4q6Z_uZFM9Tru-EsuGLyTRPTDzmFpLKQzes0R39CpFqJ44WiHAl1DS9_87-hEO7OW3DI4OWT69UXY-VDD2Tdw3oPQqBFS96LlYY2ibKMeYCc0PrXq7nfAHYVe9PdWjVI0Cj7wRQ4gClu2p1_WBDdk=
- **GTIN:** 978-1-913620-20-2
- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

The Shabbiness of Beauty, a debossed printed hardback photography book by Moyra Davey and Peter Hujar, featuring a white cover with black and white imagery.

## Description

The Shabbiness of Beauty is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujar’s archives and emerged mainly with little-known, scarcely seen images. In response to these, Davey created her own images that draw out an idiosyncratic selection of shared subjects. Side by side, the powerfully composed images admire, tease, and enhance one another in the manner of fierce friends, forming a visual exploration of physicality and sexuality that crackles with wit, tenderness, and perspicacity. Spiritually anchored in New York City – even as they range out to rural corners of Quebec and Pennsylvania – these images crystallise tensions between city and country, human and animal. Nudes pose with unruly chickens; human bodies are abstracted toward topography; seascapes and urban landscapes share the same tremulous plasticity. These continuities are punctuated by stark differences of approach: Davey’s self-aware postmodernism against Hujar’s humanism and embrace of darkroom manipulation. The rich dialogue between these photographs is personal and angular, ultimately offering an illuminating reintroduction to each celebrated artist through communion with the other’s work.   LOOK INSIDE

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Unsigned

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 2

| SKU | Availability |
| --- | --- |
| 9781913620202 | In stock |
| 9781913620202S | Out of stock |

## Categories

- **Categories:** Photography Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-913620-20-2
- **tags:** Moyra Davey, peter hujar, transfer
- **pages:** 128 pages
- **author:** Moyra Davey & Peter Hujar
- **format:** Debossed printed hardback
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Debossed printed hardback
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 17 x 24cm
- **page count:** 128 pages
- **product type:** Photography Books
- **listed prices:** €40 £35 US$50 AU$89
- **shopify handle:** the-shabbiness-of-beauty-br-moyra-davey-peter-hujar
- **publication date:** April 2021
- **dimensions and pages:** 17 x 24cm, 128 pages
- **signed edition details:** The signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover.

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photography book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, hardcover book
- **Tags:** hardback, debossed cover, black and white photography, printed cover
- **Styles:** minimalist, artistic
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Hardcover
- **Genre:** Arts
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

## Images

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