Akram Zaatari : the uneasy subject

This book is the first comprehensive publication dedicated to the universe of Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, whose work addresses the subject of desire and the depiction of the human body in photography and popular culture. Zaatari uses the world around him as the ultimate archive; his "excavations" unearth hidden objects, documents and stories that he uses to study a multitude of situations related to image making and modern times. Influenced in childhood by popular Egyptian cinema, and later by Bresson, Fassbinder, Pasolini and the documentary practice of Lebanese filmmaker Mohammed Soueid, Zaatrari's work gives special attention to the capturing of fleeting desire in daily attitudes among men, and to the study of sex practices in the Arab culture that is Lebanon. This survey of Zaatari's work offers an occasion to see a documentary practice that is imbued with the poetry of daily life.--Back cover.