A selection of Foam Magazine Talent photographs
From the bedroom...
Most of us love it, and some of us will hate it. But we simply
have to live with the thing that is our most loyal companion: our
bed. On average we spend a third of our lifetime in our beds. Given
that fact it is surprising how neglected our bed usually is. We
step out of it and tend to no longer pay it any attention until the
moment we go to bed again.
With this book things will change. Over the last 2 years we
noticed that a lot of photographers have taken all kinds of
photographs in which the bed is the sole protagonist. And they come
in all shapes and sizes: thrown open and stained, standing upright
against a wall, seen from extremely close proximity, neatly made
up, as part of a perverse sculpture, or standing casually between
other pieces of furniture. Presented like this, a bed can quite
easily become loaded with significance. It's the place where we
sleep, make love, where most of us are born and eventually will
die. The bed as a metaphor for life.
Of course, with its distinction between sheets, pillows,
blankets and wall, the bed offers countless opportunities for
quasi-abstract studies in form, with the emphasis on texture.
Therefore this book is as much a book on photography as it is on
beds.
All the photographs presented in this book have been selected by
the editors of Foam Magazine, the international photography
quarterly. Each autumn we present our famous Talent-issue for which
we look at hundreds of portfolios and thousands of images taken by
a new generation of photographers. Looking at all these photographs
there was something that was ever-recurring, something we simply
couldn't ignore… the bed.
For press information, full details here, or you can read the
press release here.