Title: Avantgarb{age}, The Art in Wearing Trash
Photographer/s: Caitlin Margaret Kelly
Contributor/s: Aidana Baldassarre
Date of publication: June 2010
Dimensions: standard portrait 8×10 inches
Edition size: POD
Type of binding: Hardcover w/ dust jacket
Number of pages: 74
Type of paper: premium
Number of pictures: 65
Printer: Blurb
Publisher: self-published
Designer: Caitlin Margaret Kelly
Language: English / Spanish
Category: POD
Price: 69.95
Summary: Avantgarb(age), The Art in Wearing Trash is a collaborative project between Argentine designer Aidana Baldassarre and USA photographer Caitlin Margaret Kelly.
Baldassarre takes garbage, thrown out remnants, bike tires, plastic milk bags, soda bottles, old ties and whatever she finds on the street and transforms them into wearable art. The message is beyond just recycling. Think. Piense. What you treat as garbage, what you assume is at the end of its life, is what Baldassarre sees as the ingredients to her art, a means to respect and honor the planet, and a way to get you to think about the possibilities latent in the discarded.
In teaming up with Baldassarre, Kelly, a veteran photographer, uses stark lighting and highly stylized photographs to accentuate the edginess of the designs and compliment the urban backgrounds. Like the designs themselves, the photographs are constructed to help you wander through the scene and discover the details.
The models were also specifically chosen because they are not models. Men and women, without modeling experience, wear each piece. And Just like recycling is for everyday people, so too is this art.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: February 1973, Massachusetts, USA.
Website: www.weargarbage.wordpess.com
Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1414419#about-book
Donated by: Caitlin Margaret Kelly
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