Antoine D'Agata

Antoine d'Agata is a French photographer born in Marseille in 1961.

Biography

D'Agata left France in 1983 to start a series of travels. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography of New York in 1990, under the tutelage of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.^[1]

D'Agata's work deals with addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, prostitution, and other topics widely considered taboo.^[2]

In 2001 D'Agata won the Niépce Prize for young photographers.^[3]

D'Agata has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2008. He has published more than a dozen books and three films.

In 2009 Tommaso Lusena and Giuseppe Schillaci released a documentary film about D'Agata called The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata.

Publications

• 1998
  • Mala Noche, En Vue, France
  • De Mala Muerte, Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur
• 2001
  • Hometown, Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur
  • Antoine d'Agata, Centro de Estudios Fotograficos, Spain
• 2003
  • Insomnia, Marseille: Images en Manoeuvre Editions, 2003
  • Vortex, Éditions Atlantica, France
• 2004
  • La Ville sans Nom, Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur
  • Stigma, Images en Manoeuvre, France
• 2005
  • Manifeste - Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur
  • Psychogéographie - Paris: Le Point du Jour Editeur

Exhibitions

2004: 1001 Nuits. Paris.

Films

• 2004: Le Ventre du Monde (The World's Belly)
• 2005: El cielo del muerto (documentary short)
• 2008: Aka Ana
• 2012: Atlas

Awards

• 1999
  • Forscher Fellowship Award, New York, USA
  • Bourse Villa Médicis, Hors les murs, France
  • First Prize, Festival des Jeunes Créateurs, Paris, France
• 2001 - Prix Niepce, France
• 2004 - The Higashikawa Overseas Prize, Japan

References

External links

• Antoine D'Agata at Magnum Photos
• Overview of Antoine D'Agata's work at documentsdartistes.org
• Antoine D'Agata on Facebook
• Antoine D'Agata at IMDB
• Antoine d'Agata: “Empty Shell Walking” By Doug Rickard at American Suburb X
• Interview with Antoine d'Agata