Books BY R. Scott MacLeay
Scott MacLeay is the author of seven books / é autor de sete livros:
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TROPICAL INTERFERENCE
©2023 Creative Process - 368 pages (English, French, Portuguese)
Tropical Interference is a limited edition trilingual book (English, french and Portuguese) representing a comprehensive overview of MacLeay’s new media work (digital photography and award-winning video projects) undertaken between 2010 and 2023. The book reveals the impact that his time in Brazil has had on his chromatic choices, his social perspectives and the evolution and development of his image-making process.
In his preface to the book, Juan Esteves writes “Macleay dismantles the established proposition of mainstream photography, distancing himself from the mannerist idea attributed to an image, regardless of its eventual pictorial nature and however strong it may be due to the aesthetics it promotes - his authorial framework supported by abstractionism and in part, by his vast musical repertoire, being more ontological in the sense of what the Albert Einstein, the German physicist, violinist and pianist, by equating his activities, designated as improvisation … His repertoire, also sustained by political, ethnic, social and economic considerations as in his series Tribal Confusion (2012-2015), has the power to mix the figurative with the abstract in a form of oxymoron, resulting in an audacious graphic, typical of artistic nonconformity, a moment when the author settles down far from the art establishment, not only in what constitutes his core but in his techniques … The consistency and permanence of his reflective investigation distances his work from the banal and monotonous use of the photographic image. He is in harmony with the departure from neutrality, based, as he says, on the definition of the perception of what we are or of our conviction of what we are not …”
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THOUGHTS ON … the daily musings of an economist turned artist
©2022 Creative Process - 260 pages (English)
A collection of the author's brief personal thoughts on a variety of topics in various fields (culture, economics, politics, philosophy, sociology) that he felt were relevant not only to his personal journey, but also in more general terms to the challenges we all face on a daily basis in contemporary society.
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FUTILITY AS REBIRTH
©2022 Creative Process - 40 pages (English)
This book consists of a collection of both logical and irrational encounters and confrontations between a variety of narrative texts, poems and images that do not necessarily explore identical or even similar themes. Why this voluntary incoherence? Simply because life is not always coherent. For the author, life is a series of non-linear narratives and although they may sometimes seem futile, carefully exploited, the situations they create may constitute opportunities, renaissance moments capable of reigniting our creative spark and of provoking the development of innovative perspectives on almost any theme.
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Encounters in the right and Left Hemispheres
©2020 Creative Process - 150 paginas (English, Portuguese)
An interactive photobook of the performance-based project “Encounters in the Right and Left Hemispheres”, which explores relationship development based on chance events. The book constituted the first stage of a three-stage project featuring performance artists Tássya Karasiak and Scott MacLeay.
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Um fotolivro interativo (Inglês/Português) do projeto baseado em arte performática « Encontros nos Hemisférios Direito e Esquerdo”, que explora o desenvolvimento de relacionamentos com base em eventos aleatórios. O livro constituiu a primeira etapa de um projeto de três etapas com artistas performáticos Tássya Karasiak e Scott MacLeay.
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quadrichromie 1978 - 1988
©2018 ©2022 Creative Process - 120 paginas (English, French, Portuguese)
A selection of Scott MacLeay's analogue photographic work begun in Vancouver in 1978 and completed almost a decade after he took up residence in Paris in 1979. The book includes work from his three principal four-colour series: ATTITUDES: 1978-1980, FRAGMENTS: 1980-1982 and WAVELENGTH: 1983-1988. (English/French/Portuguese).
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Uma seleção do trabalho fotográfico analógico de Scott MacLeay começou em Vancouver em 1978 e concluído quase uma década depois que ele se estabeleceu em Paris em 1979. O livro inclui trabalhos de suas três principais séries de quatro cores: ATTITUDES: 1978-1980, FRAGMENTS: 1980-1982 e WAVELENGTH: 1983-1988. (inglês/francês/português).
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Une sélection du travail photographique analogique de Scott MacLeay commencé à Vancouver en 1978 et achevé près d'une décennie après son installation à Paris en 1979. Le livre comprend des travaux de ses trois principales séries en quadrichromie : ATTITUDES: 1978-1980, FRAGMENTS: 1980-1982 et WAVELENGTH: 1983-1988. (anglais/français/portugais)
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PENSAR, SENTIR, VER: PERCEPÇÃO E PROCESS EM FOTOGRAFIA
©2015 Editora Photo - 340 pages (Portuguese)
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Esta coleção de 16 ensaios é um olhar provocante, cosmopolita e altamente pessoal sobre o processo de conceituar e fazer imagens fotográficas hoje, e a importância da polinização cruzada com os processos criativos que enquadram outras formas de expressão artística nas artes visuais e performáticas. Como um artista que acredita firmemente na importância da partilha irrestrita de informações, técnicas e processos, o objetivo de MacLeay ao apresentar esta coleção é claro desde o início: incitar constante o questionamento do status quo, promovendo a exploração de estruturas conceituais alternativas afim de provocar análises, debates e mudanças inovadoras na forma como abordamos e definimos a fotografia contemporânea.
G.D. TRUC: TheMan, the book
©2011 Editora Photo - 64 pages (English)
A satirical look at the life of a fictional French cartoon character during the 1980s and 1990s. The cartoons were created by MacLeay in Paris the early 80s.
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