{"id":126981,"date":"2019-10-14T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=126981"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:15:56","slug":"ben-hassetts-new-book-color-lives-up-to-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/ben-hassetts-new-book-color-lives-up-to-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hassett&#8217;s New Book &#8220;Color&#8221; Lives Up to its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.centerimg {padding:4em 10em;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg2 {padding:4em 16em;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg3 {padding:4em 7em;margin:20px 0;}\n.sidetxt {padding:16em 2em 16em 2em;;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg img {margin-bottom:0px;}\n.instagram-media {margin:auto !important;}\n#wp-content hr {margin: 40px auto 80px auto;width: 80%;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/120115_HAR_06_002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/120115_HAR_06_002.jpg 750w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/120115_HAR_06_002-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n<small> All images courtesy of Ben Hassett<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tomorrow, October 15th, at Dashwood Books in New York, a book signing with <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/ben-hassett\">Ben Hassett<\/a> will celebrate the launch of Color, the photographer&#8217;s first monograph. Naming your book &#8220;Color&#8221; you better be able to back it up, but who better to thoroughly explore one of photography&#8217;s most fundamental principles than the British, New York-based image-maker\u2013\u2013known for his chroma-charged beauty images, bold both in theory and in play. Designed by art director, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/fabien-baron\">Fabien Baron<\/a>, the monograph constructs 10 years of Hassett&#8217;s work, from beauty to still lifes to abstracts to landscapes, into a visual discourse on the book&#8217;s namesake. The work is framed by an essay from photographic authority and curator, Charlotte Cotton, who muses on the photographer&#8217;s awareness of the techniques he exercises in his personal work and fashion work. &#8220;In his hands, color is multiform: a symbolic detail that resists easy translation; a visual strategy that upends our expectations of what can be beautiful; a cast that permeates and amplifies the emotional register of its subject; a monochromatic palette that withdraws all visual interference; the singular, literal subject of his most abstract photographs; and a visual space where opposing registers of color come together,&#8221; Cotton writes. Models.com spoke to Ben Hassett about Color in advance of the signing. Read it below.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ben Hassett&#8217;s ongoing Models.com portrait series <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/tag\/Industry-Now\/\">&#8220;Industry, Now&#8221;<\/a> profiling fashion&#8217;s creative forces. <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/06_BH_Vogue_Russia_090512_012_v1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/06_BH_Vogue_Russia_090512_012_v1.jpg 749w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/06_BH_Vogue_Russia_090512_012_v1-479x640.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<p><strong>As a creative and a photographer with many published images, can you explain the personal significance compiling work into a book like color might add?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes, the idea was to show a selection of published and unpublished photographic works that had somehow influenced one another, without committing oneself to the banality of a retrospective book.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>During the editing process, did you have restrictions in mind particular to this book to limit and guide the selection of your work?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes I deliberately kept out any portraits \u2013 I think there is one image of an actress in there, but really it\u2019s a photograph more than it is a likeness, so that doesn\u2019t count. I also took out a lot of fashion and beauty images that might have been interesting but were no longer relevant to the way I think about photography. I work across many photographic genres and it was important that the book demonstrated a cross section of that practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/040418_PRS_01_164-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/040418_PRS_01_164-copy.jpg 750w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/040418_PRS_01_164-copy-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<p><strong>What about working with Fabien for the design? What does he bring out of your images?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nFabien is really a wonderful guy to work with. He always forces you to be better than you are, creatively. He also works very quickly. He makes important decisions, and sticks to them.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHe insisted that we keep black and white photographs in the book, even though it would be called \u201cColor\u201d. He argued that black, white, and grey were colors too. I let him win that one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the process of putting the book together lead you to any discoveries? Rediscoveries?<\/strong><br \/>\nI always considered myself a documentary photographer in spirit. But as a look at the work, actually it turns out I am just as interested in abstraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I also thought as a photographer I was just doing the same thing ad nauseam, but I was happy to find that the book tells another story.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>With the release of the book, youre now ready to\u2026?<\/strong><br \/>\nMake the next one. I am making a book of flowers. It is an adventure, and really unlike anything that I ever made before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/101218_PRS_07_008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/101218_PRS_07_008.jpg 750w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/101218_PRS_07_008-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"centerimg3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"731\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/unnamed.png 900w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/10\/unnamed-640x520.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--pp-thumb-start--><!--PictPress found no dir \/2019\/10\/126981--><!--pp-thumb-end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Models.com spoke to the image-maker in advance of tomorrow&#8217;s book signing celebrating the release of his first monograph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":126984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10414,2],"tags":[10062,1922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126981"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127022,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions\/127022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}