{"title":"Mike and Doug Starn","description":"\u003cp\u003eMike and Doug Starn (born 1961, Absecon, New Jersey) are American artists who have worked collaboratively since the early 1980s. Their practice is rooted in photography but consistently exceeds its conventional boundaries: the Starns fold, clamp, tape, layer and construct photographic materials into three-dimensional assemblages that foreground the physical properties of the medium — its surface, support, fragility and capacity to be handled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir breakthrough came in the mid-1980s with large-scale works made from toned ortho film combined with steel, silicon and other structural materials. Works such as \u003cem\u003eFear of Influence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSun\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eVaporum\u003c\/em\u003e series treat the photograph as an object to be built rather than simply printed, collapsing the distinction between image and sculpture. A major travelling museum survey in 1990–91 consolidated their international reputation, and in 1992 they received the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir 1992 exhibition at The Power Plant, Toronto — \u003cem\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e, curated by Richard Rhodes alongside Hannah Collins — placed their assembled photographic structures in dialogue with Collins’s monumental wall-based sequences, examining the material and physical dimensions of photographic practice. The Starns have exhibited widely at institutions across North America and Europe, and their work is held in major public collections internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hannah-collins-mike-doug-starn-regeneration-power-plant-1992","title":"HANNAH COLLINS \/ MIKE AND DOUG STARN — Regeneration. The Power Plant, Toronto, 1992","description":"\u003cp\u003eToronto: The Power Plant, 1992. Exhibition: 18 September–1 November 1992. Curated by Richard Rhodes. Large-format exhibition catalogue, 8 pages, 8 illustrations, 31 × 24 cm. ISBN 0-921047-57-6.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Overall toning and surface handling, with light creasing, softened corners and minor wear along the edges. Small marks and shallow impressions to the wrappers; complete and firmly held.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e brought Hannah Collins together with Mike and Doug Starn at a point when photography was increasingly being considered as both image and constructed object. Richard Rhodes placed Collins’s monumental photographic sequences beside the Starns’ three-dimensional assemblages, using the exhibition to examine the physical scale, support and material presence of photographic work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe checklist records Collins’s \u003cem\u003ePlural\/West\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEggs for Bread\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRevolving\u003c\/em\u003e and the twenty-eight-panel \u003cem\u003eStonefree\u003c\/em\u003e. The Starns were represented by works including \u003cem\u003eFear of Influence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSun\u003c\/em\u003e and four versions of \u003cem\u003eVaporum\u003c\/em\u003e, made from toned ortho film combined with steel or silicon. One practice extends the photograph across walls and repeated panels; the other folds, clamps and layers it into a structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition arrived one year before Collins’s Turner Prize nomination and shortly after the Starns’ major 1990–91 travelling museum survey. In the same year, Mike and Doug Starn received the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight pages reduce the exhibition to measurements, materials, reproductions and a sequence of names. The large sheet preserves something of the scale of the works while remaining an institutional object intended to be folded, handled and carried away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Power Plant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53989166612818,"sku":"COLLINS-POWERPLANT-CAT-1992","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Collins_Hannah._Starn_Mike_and_Doug._Regeneration._1992.jpg?v=1783935122"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/mike-and-doug-starn.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}