{"product_id":"john-waters-change-of-life-9780810943063","title":"John Waters: Change Of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the past forty years  film director John Waters - once crowned \"The Pope of Trash\" by William Burroughs and now hailed as the genius behind Broadways smash-hit musical Hairspray - has moved from the margins of culture to the mainstream. Ever subversive and happy to raise the issues that polite society works hard to suppress  Waters has helped to liberate us from social restrictions and norms. In that process  he has created hilarious and provocative filmed entertainment. And since he picked up a still camera more than ten years ago  he has reinvented himself as a visual artist. Scrutinizing videotapes of over-the-top Hollywood movies and forgotten art films that had long obsessed  amused  and fascinated him  Waters started to photograph video stills off his television screen. The moments that he captured became the raw material for artworks that Waters began to call his \"little movies.\" In these photographic sequences  Waters continues to skewer cultural symbols and stereotypes  and to elaborate on the cultural and subcultural themes that have been central to all his work: race  sex  sanctimony  glamour  class  family politics  celebrity  religion  the media  and the allure of crime. John Waters : Change of Life  published on the occasion of Waterss first major exhibition  presents a survey of his still photographic works and stills from his earliest and seldom seen no-budget films: Hag in a Black Leather Jacket  Roman Candles  and Eat Your Makeup. The book also includes images of objects from Waters personal collection that reflect his ongoing fascination with photographic imagery  the mass media  and some of the more outrageous expressions of American popular culture. Accompanying these artworks  film stills  and quirky images are contributions by cultural and art historians that zero in on Waterss cinematic mind and photographic eye  and on surprising artworks that speak for themselves in more subtle and complex ways than might ever be expected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646901248053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0810943069","price":83.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780810943063.jpg?v=1781680944","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/john-waters-change-of-life-9780810943063","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}