Acclaimed beauty and fashion photographer Ben Hassett has a fabulous new book coming out. Color, which is printed in ultraviolet ink, will have a limited release of 1,000 hand-signed copies. Hassett has been teasing the contents of his first monograph for a few weeks on his Instagram, posting plates from the upcoming book. The images are highly saturated close-ups of beauty, fashion, flowers, and studio still-lifes, in keeping with his distinctive style of photography. 

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Rather than presenting his chromatic images chronologically, the book presents the photos in a dynamic manner, whilst showcasing the high-points of Hassett’s career over the past ten years. The British photographer shared a few words on his approach via lengthy Instagram captions.

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The book is prefaced by curator and photography writer Charlotte Cotton, who had this to say about Color: 

Color is Ben Hassett’s pluralistic, celebratory ode to photography and the experimental journey on which it has taken him. In his hands, color is multiform: a symbolic detail that resists easy translation; a visual strategy that upends our expectations of what can be beautiful; a cast that permeates and amplifies the emotional register of its subject; a monochromatic palette that withdraws all visual interference; the singular, literal subject of his most abstract photographs; and a visual space where opposing registers of color come together.

For anyone who’s interested in getting their hands on a signed copy of Color, you can join the photographer on Tuesday, October 15th from 6-8 pm for a book signing at Dashwood Books.