Bling Bling Baby!

by Nadine Barth

Flaming flowers and lollipop hipsters, glittery façades and wallpaper Alps? In recent years a new canon of images has been developing in fine arts photography in which the art of exaggeration meets the glorification of the superficial. From glam fashion to the poetry of nature, from the pop portrait to the ironic mise-en-scène, new stances in photography display a preference for anything that's opulent, sugary sweet, and trivial. This elaborately designed volume comes with an embossed hard cover and silver edging that's as gaudy as its photographs. It's inspired by the 'bling' of hip-hop,...