JEFF BURTON (b. 1963, CA),

'Jeff Burton: The Other Place', 2005

SIGNED Oversized Photography Book

by Jeff Burton (photographer). Publ. by Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 2005. SIGNED by Jeff Burton in black marker on colophon page. Hardbound, 188 pp., 89 four-color plates housed in a beautiful black cloth-covered clamshell box with embossed title (15" x 13-3/8" x 1-3/4"). First edition. Dimensions: 14" x 12" x 1" (book). Weight: 8 lbs. BRAND NEW.

This fantastic volume presents the most comprehensive collection of Jeff Burton's sexy, tantalizing photographs to date. Presented in a fresh oversized format, the book showcases Burton's important contribution to the history of the nude in a visceral tour de force. Building on his earlier images that observe how background décor play witness to the action on pornographic sets where he works as a still photographer, Burton brings us more of his oblique narrative style with many new images. His mastery of selective focus—sometimes on the fern in the foreground, sometimes on a hand, at other times on the couple going at it in the corner—actively engages viewers in the narrative of desire; with each photograph, they must orient themselves in the familiar domestic environment and make incongruent connections only hinted at in the frame.

Burton's hardcore porn color palate and his astonishing skill for cropping in a way that doesn't reveal too much makes for an extremely enjoyably read, both viscerally and intellectually. He crops just enough of the action outside of the frame to force the viewer into imagining the rest, relying on our natural voyeuristic tendencies to fill in the plot. The hands of the mirrored clock are in focus as the male sex actors bend over in the blurred reflection. Pairs of feet on the shag carpeting allude to what is happening above. A man's hand, in sharp focus, grips the side of the couch as a faint reflection in the window shows a figure looking downward.

Burton's photographs not only document the sex industry, but also explore our notions of sexuality and commodification. His photographs set up uncanny relationships between people and their surroundings, and his playful juxtapositions blur the traditional boundaries of real action and acting, work and pleasure, fact and fiction, documentary and fine art photography.

Jeff Burton has profited from working in the porn industry for almost twenty years, towing its seemingly paradoxical strict docu-aesthetic line: he never crops his photographs nor are they ever manipulated; any staging is the result of the labor and art direction available at the scene or on the set - no longer in his photographs "staged" but things in the world.

              --Bruce Hainley

This book is the first comprehensive selection of Jeff Burton's work in pornography which began in the 1980's with his portraits and stills for pornographic video boxes. This oversize volume captures the lush atmosphere and isolation of the men and women working in the California pornographic industry through the eyes of one of its most brilliant observers.

Art, fashion and pornography have their own standards of decency. The hierarchy is so rigid. Fine art has been elevated to the top, fashion is a bit lower than that, and porn's even a bit lower than that. 'I wanted to break through and introduce those genres to one another', Jeff Burton says, 'allowing the different levels of expression to merge. The sexualization of absolutely everything- bar sex.' Burton reinterprets the very concept of pornography: His photographs capture the idea of seduction and sensuality, without the crude harshness of explicit hard-core imagery. Burton captivates, titillates and yet only hints at what is really going on. these scenes might be quite harmless, but nothing is as banal as it seems, and the atmosphere suggest a drama about to unfold. His viewers are thrown into the rather embarrassing but irresistible role of voyeur.

Jeff Burton's photography has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Barbican Centre in London, and many other national and international museums. He has had seven solo shows at his primary gallery, Casey Kaplan, New York.  Burton's work is also represented at Galleria Franco Noero, Italy.

Burton has collaborated on advertising campaigns with Tom Ford, Yves Saint Laurent, Kris Van Assche, and Wrangler Europe, as well as projects with Jean Colonna and Lancôme.  Burton has contributed to French Vogue, Vogue Hommes International, Domus, Arena Homme +, Vanity Fair, Fantastic Man, Numéro, and The New York Times.

SELECT RECENT EXHIBITIONS:

2023
'Jeff Burton: Las Vegas', Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2021
'The Going Away Present' (group exhibition), Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020
'ONLINE: Rear Window' (group exhibition), White Cube, London, UK

2019
'Act & Porn: In collaboration with ARoS' (group exhibition), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
'Camera of Wonders' (group exhibition), Casa França-Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
'Defying Darkness: Photography at Night' (group exhibition), Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
'Camera of Wonders' (group exhibition), Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Medellin, Colombia

2015
'Camera of Wonders' (group exhibition), Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
'In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni' (group exhibition),  Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
'viewer DISCRETION… children of BATAILLE' (group exhibition), Stux + Haller Gallery, New York, NY
'He: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection' (group exhibition), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

2014
'One Way: Peter Marino' (group exhibition), Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
'Something Beautiful' (group exhibition), Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
'Never Look Back When Leaving' (group exhibition), Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
'Darren Bader' (group exhibition), Andrew Kreps, New York, NY

2012
'No. 17' (group exhibition), Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY

2011
'Jeff Burton: Polaroids', Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy

2010
'I Want To See How You See' (group exhibition), Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
'Jeff Burton: Portraits', Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY

2009
'WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha' (group exhibition), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2008
'WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha' (group exhibition), FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
'Darkside - Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed' (group exhibition), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

2007
'Arte e Omosessualità. Da von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles' (group exhibition), Palazzina Reale, Firenze, Italy
'Stripped Bare. Der Entblößte Körper' (group exhibition), C/O Berlin, Germany
'Arte e Omosessualità. Da von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles' (group exhibition), Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, Italy
'Into Me / Out of Me' (group exhibition), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
'Jeff Burton', Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
'The Photographer's Contract' (group exhibition), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2006
'Into Me / Out of Me' (group exhibition), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
'The Photographer's Contract' (group exhibition), Akademie der Künste, Berlin Germany
'Into Me / Out of Me' (group exhibition), P.S.1. MoMA, Long Island City, NY
'Jeff Burton', Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY

2005
'Some Romantic Landscape: Jeff Burton, Brian Bress, Corinna Schnitt', Champion Fine Art, New York, NY

2004
'Jeff Burton', Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy

2003
'Jeff Burton', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

 

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