Alvin Booth: Osmosis

December 2022 9783936165616 | £39.00 Paperback | 138pp | 340 x 180mm 100 col & b/w photos Rights: Worldwide exc. USA & Canada

Second Edition

Text: John Krakauer & Peter Hamilton

Alvin Booth was born in Hull, in the Northeast of England. He left school at the age of seventeen and trained to become a hairdresser. After working in Hull he later moved to Oxford where his interest in photography grew. In 1989 he gave up hairdressing and moved to New York City. He divides his time between New York and the southwest of France. Alvin Booths first book of nudes, Corpus was awarded the Kodak Photo Book press award for 2002. Magically ethereal, mysterious nudes are at the gravitational centre of Alvin Booth’s image-making. A widely recognized artist represented by a host of European and American galleries, and a master of innovative techniques of shooting and printing, he is completely self-taught.

“Etherealness is really that I wanted to capture in ‘Osmosis’; to abstract the figures as much as possible so that the bodies are barely there. I wanted to still keep them looking like figures, but to make them look a bit impossible too, almost not quite human at all, not people.”