Piotr Ulanski: Fatal Attraction - Rosetta Brooks

Art appreciators and museum-goers interested in both contemporary art and historical art references in the themes of love and death, as well as photography and photo-book aficionados will find Piotr Uklanski: Fatal Attraction especially engaging. A previously under-the-radar artist, recognisiton of the New-York based artist Piotr Uklanski (born Poland, 1968) is growing alonside this book, and exhibitions. Piotr Uklanski: Fatal Attraction accompanies two retrospective exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this year, Piotr Uklanski: Photographs and Piotr Uklanski: Selections from the Met Collection. Piotr Uklanski: Fatal Attraction presents images from the Met collection exhibition as well as an in-depth examination of Uklanski's photographic oeuvre. Rosetta Brooks's extremely readable essay place Uklanski's work into a mainstream cultural context, while Douglas Ecklund's essay focuses on his specific body of work, Joy of Photography.