Female.

[London]: The artist, (2013). First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Folio (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches). One long sheet of paper folded twice bears the title, limitation, printing information, and an introduction by Mat Collishaw. It also has thumbnail views of the 26 original photographs contained in the portfolio. The portfolio itself is simple folding stiff cardstock with the front bearing an impression of a triangle and the title in silver. New.This is not a publication glorifying or objectifying women's bodies but rather an inner journey undertaken by the artist. Mat Collishaw (himself a fine art photographer and a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths’ College in the late 1980s) writes in the introduction:"James Mountford's Females avoid the bright flash of the modern camera and elude the high contrast, colour saturated, cacophony of digital sewage. Unlike most contemporary representations of the female body, they twist and cavort to an unknown rhythm, evoking the knuckled stumps of savagely pruned trees. Their contours appear and disappear as if we had intruded on their presence in an unlit room. Uneasily, they provoke voyeuristic speculation that is never sated as they continually elude our senses and comprehension. The brilliance of these coarse and bristled bodies remains etched on our retina long after the new days' digital downpour - Mat Collishaw. An article about him on the DRESS website comments on this projest thusly--"Towards the end of his time in London, James started working more and more on his own art/work. He produced an over-size non-book folio of prints and a series of form studies using life models and performers as well as model/models. Startling, minimal, (un)still life/s. A human in a space with chair, nude tights, floor lines – all in relationship. A deliberate exploration and pushing of composition and subject/object – knowing, unafraid of possible ugliness."