Marc Atkins

Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and poet, born in London, England in 1962, best known for his photography of cities and nudes, also commecially for music album and book covers.

Background

Atkins attended Staffordshire College of Art and Design, gaining a Distinction; Cheltenham School of Art, receiving a First Class Honors Degree (in sculpture), followed by Postgraduate Studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Netherlands (in performance, video, film and photography). After spending the subsequent year in Rome, he returned to London.

His next move was to Canada where, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, during which time he travelled across North America. Since then, Atkins has lived and worked in London, but has also spent extended periods of time in Rome, New York, Warsaw and Paris. He now lives in London,UK.

Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at lectures and conferences at venues such as the Royal Academy, London, UEL School of Architecture, London, Royal College of Art, London, Instytut Mikołowski, Poland, the New York School in Paris, The Photographers' Gallery, London and Université de Liège, Belgium.

Atkins' work is exhibited regularly, and has been published and reviewed in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including V & A Magazine, Le Passant Ordinaire,^[1] Frieze, Negronia, Dwukropek, Performance Research, Porzucone twarze, Fotographia, and Hotshoe International.

As a commercial photographer his work has been published in numerous books, and has produced images for many CD covers, including David Lynch ('Good Day Today' and 'I know'),^[2] The Breeders,^[3] TV on the Radio,^[4] Scott Walker^[5] and Jah Wobble, and also for over one hundred book-jackets, including Arthur Miller, Anaïs Nin, Joseph Conrad, Georges Bataille, R. L. Stevenson, Peter Ackroyd, D. H. Lawrence, A. L. Kennedy and Iain Sinclair.^[6] He has completed several video commissions, including music videos and short films on Byam Shaw School of Art^[7] and Central Saint Martins School of Art. His work is in many public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery.^[8]

Bibliography

• "The Logic of the Stairwell" solo prose/poetry (Shearsman Books ISBN 978-1-84861-161-0)
• "The Teratologists", solo photography (panoptika ISBN 0-9534371-0-8)
• "Liquid City", solo photography with text by Iain Sinclair (Reaktion ISBN 1861890370)
• “Thirteen”, solo photography with text by thirteen writers, including Julian Rathbone, Bill Drummond, James Sallis, Mick Farren, Stella Duffy and Nicholas Royle. (The Do-Not Press ISBN 1899344861)
• “Warszawa” solo photography with poetry by Tadeusz Pioro and Andrezj Sosnowski (Wig-press ISBN 83-87014-99-0)
• “The World's Top Photographers: Nudes”, also includes the work of Guy Bourdin, Bettina Rheims, Robert Mapplethorpe and Rankin (RotoVision ISBN 2-88046-823-X)
• "The Nude" also includes the work of Bill Brandt & Ralph Gibson (RotoVision ISBN 2-88046-533-8)
• "Faces of Mathematics", solo photography with introductions by Nick Gilbert, and also with text by the participants, including Sir Michael Atiyah. (panoptika ISBN 0-9534371-1-6)

References

1. ^ "Passant Ordinaire: Revue". http://www.passant-ordinaire.com/revue/49-668-en.asp. 
2. ^ "Marc Atkins Artwork for David Lynch". http://marcatkins.com/LatestNews-Lynch.html. 
3. ^ "Five Questions for Vaughan Olive". http://breedersdigest.net/2008/behind-the-scenes/5-questions-for-vaughan-oliver/. 
4. ^ "TV on the Radio". http://www.discogs.com/TV-On-The-Radio-Return-To-Cookie-Mountain/release/721586. 
5. ^ "Scott Walker The Drift". http://www.discogs.com/Scott-Walker-The-Drift/release/700611. 
6. ^ "Marc Atkins Book Covers". http://www.panoptika.net/workdone/bookcovers01.html. 
7. ^ "Arts: Courses". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlOI3JTEnA0. 
8. ^ "NPG Profile". http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp10248&. 

External links

• Marc Atkins website
• Marc Atkins commercial photography
• A selection of short films by Marc Atkins
• Marc Atkins work at the National Portrait Gallery
• Marc Atkins exhibition at Galeria FF
• Marc Atkins exhibition at FABS

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