Elle Perez: Devotions

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The first monograph focused on the work of Elle Prez, collecting over a decade of deeply personal and visually striking images that imagine a world of love, desire, and vulnerability.

Love, heartache, pleasure, painElle Prez has emerged as a defining voice of their generation, collecting over the past decade a trove of deeply personal and arresting images of vulnerabilitys rawest materials. Prez makes disarmingly intimate images that portray states of emotional intensity and physical transformation. They started out as a teenager photographing underground spaces, making a tenderand vivid record of unalloyed freedom. Since then, their work has ranged from strikingportraits of friends and lovers to gladiatorial photographs of wrestlers, crystalline landscapes and still lifes, and sprawling multimedia collages that pull together influences across art and literature. This book presents the artists most influential works from 2009 to the presentalongside the ephemera, notes, and research that inform their singular visionand confirms Prezs mastery of the fine balance between document and imagination, perception and performance.