Hearts and Bones
A Retrospective of Tom Chambers’ Photomontage Art
Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group
With an Introduction by Elizabeth Avedon
208 pages
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125 color plates
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11 x 11
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© 2018
Review Quotes
Foreword Reviews
"Ethereal and surreal, Tom Chambers's photomontages 'tell unfinished stories' about childhoods in flux, gasping ecologies, and unfinished fantasies. . . . His vibrant single final frames twist storybook notions into spectral scenes--in which rowboats are moored in fallow fields, their occupants waiting for the tides to turn, or in which girls in gowns twist up in lights, read to fawns, or offer themselves up to the sky. Animal life is ever-present: communing with the young, pushing on through damaged landscapes, and--at times, it seems--waiting to take over. . . . These are images worth puzzling through, whose lovely, otherworldly suggestions promise to bleed past their edges and into your dreams."
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism
"Over one hundred full-page, high-quality reproductions that display [Chambers's] subtle mastery of color as well as his seamless blending of the real and the unreal. . . . Instead of conjuring visions that are beyond belief or comically absurd, he injects a drop of magic into everyday reality, creating scenes that are improbable, and often disquieting, but not impossible."
Santa Fe New Mexican
"The figures in Tom Chambers’ photomontaged images do inexplicable things under cloudy skies. [They] display a great range in both setting and activity, but every one exudes a sense of magic."
Musée Magazine
"Venturing through the struggles of youth, homages to Biblical themes, and striking environment portraits, are the Hearts and Bones of Tom Chambers’ hauntingly gorgeous work. . . . Chambers’ photography captures the nostalgia of bedtime stories while reflecting the social commentary of our current state of being. He challenges the eye by bending the laws of nature and its surrealism."
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