Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation

Anastasia Samoylova, David Campany, Lucy Sante

Book cover for Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation
Book cover for Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation

Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation

Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation

Anastasia Samoylova, David Campany, Lucy Sante

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Anastasia Samoylova is one of the most dynamic image makers of our time, using her mastery of color and formal dynamics to explore issues of climate change, consumerism, and the overdevelopment of twenty-first-century cities. Russian-born and now a resident of Florida, Samoylova moves between observational photography and studio practice, creating imagery that is absolutely "of the moment" but also drawing from influences including the Russian avant-garde, cubism, pop art, and the postmodern interest in the blurred lines between image and reality. Across the last decade, Samoylova has assembled a global vision at once sublimely beautiful and incisive in its assessment of the challenges we face.

Samoylova's previous publications, including FloodZone, Floridas, and Image Cities, have each focused on a single project. Anastasia Samoylova, edited by longtime creative collaborator David Campany, presents her career to date across six project-centered chapters and an overview of her visual language that, with ever-present intelligent humor, both seduces and gently provokes the viewer in equal measure.

Supported by texts by writer and critic Lucy Sante and Met curator Mia Fineman, this first career retrospective introduces a rising star in photography to a popular, global audience.

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Samoylova is quickly cementing her position as one of the most intriguing image makers working today.-- "Vogue" (10/20/2024 12:00:00 AM)

Samoylova is no stranger to political volatility, and the book invites us to see the connections between the themes of humanity versus nature and nature with humanity. As she explores places, the artist reveals ideologies, ecology changes, regional values, and how they inevitably interlink . . . A beautiful photography book connecting how art can communicate intellectual topics and debates that help us shape a better environment.-- "Musée" (10/3/2024 12:00:00 AM)

A delightful discovery . . . Not only does [Anastasia Samoylova] create landscapes and other scapes that have meaning and a certain timelessness, but the meaning that her images contain is also tied to our present moment and to developments that we are experiencing ourselves right now . . . Her work [is] a wonderful challenge that invites us to contemplate our fragmented world full of contradictions and fuzziness.-- "PhotoBook Journal" (2/3/2025 12:00:00 AM)

Publishing Information

Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Pub date: 2024-10-01
Length: 224 pages

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