Malerie Marder
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Life and career
Malerie Marder (born 1971, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
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) is an American photographer and artist who lives and works in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
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. Her work centers on vivid color and black-and-white nude photographs, and has gained attention in the first decade of the new century because of its disquieting personal, sexual, and psychological aspects. The artist examines human intimacy by photographing friends and family undressed.
Marder's video work, At Rest, was first shown at Salon 94 in 2003. The artist edited videotape shot over two years into nearly 13 minutes of friends and family, always naked, in various states of repose: couples asleep in bed, a child resting on a plump pillow, a woman relaxing in the bathtub. Composer Jonathan Bepler produced the soundtrack.
The artist first gained recognition coinciding with the completion of her MFA from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in New Haven, Connecticut
Connecticut
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, and in 1999 was included in the exhibition Another Girl, Another Planet alongside 12 other photographers, including Katy Grannan
Katy Grannan
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, Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland
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, Dana Hoey
Dana Hoey
Dana Hoey is a visual artist working with photography, using "the camera to reveal the inner life of women, especially young women." Her photographs are often ambiguous and have multiple meanings...
, and Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones (artist)
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Malerie Marder's work has been acquired for permanent collections by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and others. It has been included in numerous international exhibitions.
Publication
Her first monograph, Carnal Knowledge, which comprises a decade of work, has been published by Violette Editions (London) in May 2011 with contributions by Charlotte Cotton, Gregory CrewdsonGregory Crewdson
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, Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New...
, James Ellroy
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, James Frey
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, AM Homes, and Bruce Wagner
Bruce Wagner
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