{"product_id":"lee-friedlander-prayer-pilgrimage-for-freedom-copy","title":"Luke Smalley: Exercise at Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eTwin Palms Publishers, 2024, hardcover, 48 pages, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e20.3 x 30.4 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIdiosyncratic looks at the stereotype of the red-blooded American man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his second photobook, American photographer Luke Smalley revisits the themes from his 2002 monograph \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGymnasium\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. After receiving a degree in sports medicine from Pepperdine University and then working as both a model and personal trainer, Smalley became fascinated with the archetype of the athletic American male, and sought to explore its more playful side. His compositions were inspired by early 20th-century fitness manuals and high school yearbooks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eExercise at Home\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, now reissued after being out of print since 2007, Smalley returns to his native Pennsylvania to consider the small-town interiors and landscapes that are the settings for his portraits of young athletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, combine whimsy with the inexplicable. Smalley hires a local seamstress to construct a colossal medicine ball; he binds two boys together with a \"harness\" and leaves them in an empty room for a psychological game of tug-of-war, while somewhere nearby two others lead donkeys around the floor of a basketball court in a high school gym. Scale, time and content are altered to create the world Smalley inhabits. The lush colors of this new vision belie the viewer’s sense of dislocation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60164933452160,"sku":null,"price":53.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/518--mCNQnL._SY522.jpg?v=1792500967","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/lee-friedlander-prayer-pilgrimage-for-freedom-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}