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Ari Marcopoulos: Solon

Ari Marcopoulos documents various subcultures, such as skateboarders and writers, as well as landscapes and his circle of friends, with his unique style of raw immediacy, which has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. Born in Amsterdam in 1957, Marcopoulos moved to New York in the late 1970s and soon became part of the local art scene that included the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe. He then became a key documentarian of contemporary culture, a creator of images with a strong anthropological and ethnographic component, where the subjects that he portrays reveal strong emotions, without ever exceeding in obvious voyeurism. 'Solon' is a small photo collection, contained in 24 colour pages, dedicated to the artist's brother and the distance separating them: one lives in the USA and the other in Holland. Size: 19.5 x 25.5 cm