Richard Renaldi: Touching Strangers
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Richard Renaldi: Touching Strangers by Richard Renaldi
Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones. Renaldi creates spontaneous and fleeting relationships between strangers for the camera, often pushing his subjects beyond their comfort levels. These relationships may only last for the moment the shutter is released, but the resulting photographs are moving and provocative, and raise profound questions about the possibilities for positive human connection in a diverse society.
“I love thisPhotographer Richard Renaldi put together these photos, Touching Strangers. He had perfect strangers come together and pose for these pictures in really intimate imagery. None of these people know each other. They actually met moments before the photo. . . . To paraphrase something that Nelson Mandela told me: He said that you have to reach out and physically touch people, to bridge the gap between us. To let them feel that love is real.” —Will Smith [@willsmith]. Video slideshow of Touching Strangers. Instagram, June 26, 2018.
“Renaldi's unusual photographic formula reveals the unlikely ways the body and the heart can influence each other.”—Huffington Post
“Most photographers capture life as it is, but in these strangers, Richard Renaldi shows us humanity as it could be—as most of us wish it would be—and as it was, at least for this one fleeting moment in time.”—CBS News
“The viewer can’t help fabricating a story about the subjects’ relationship. We weave narratives around them—who they are, the unlikely tenderness that might exist between strangers. These counterfactuals force us to confront the limits of what we know, from our own experiences, to make up common social interactions.”—New York Times
“Richard Renaldi is a matchmaker for tense times . . . ”—New York Times Lens Blog
“Renaldi's unusual photographic formula reveals the unlikely ways the body and the heart can influence each other.”—Huffington Post
“Most photographers capture life as it is, but in these strangers, Richard Renaldi shows us humanity as it could be—as most of us wish it would be—and as it was, at least for this one fleeting moment in time.”—CBS News
“The viewer can’t help fabricating a story about the subjects’ relationship. We weave narratives around them—who they are, the unlikely tenderness that might exist between strangers. These counterfactuals force us to confront the limits of what we know, from our own experiences, to make up common social interactions.”—New York Times
“Richard Renaldi is a matchmaker for tense times . . . ”—New York Times Lens Blog
Richard Renaldi graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. Renaldi is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York, and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin. Other books by Renaldi include Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016), Fall River Boys (2009), and Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006). In 2015, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. Richard Renaldi graduated from New York University with a BFA in photography in 1990. Renaldi is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York, and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin. Other books by Renaldi include Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016), Fall River Boys (2009), and Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006). In 2015, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Photography. Teju Cole was born in the United States to Nigerian parents and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Known and Strange Things, Every Day is for the Thief, and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the New York City Book Award for Fiction; the Rosenthal Award, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Internationaler Literaturpreis, from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. His prose and photography are combined in his most recent book, Blind Spot.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781597114301 |
| ISBN 10 | 1597114308 |
| Title | Richard Renaldi: Touching Strangers |
| Author | Richard Renaldi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Aperture |
| Year published | 2017-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 120 |
| Prizes | Winner of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 2015 (United States) |
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