Michael Dweck: Gimme Shelter, 2009

Gimme Shelter by Michael Dweck Large format hardcover: 30.5 x 30.5 cm (12 x 12 in.) 120 pages.Release date: April 2009 Published by Ditch Plains PressPrinted and bound in USClothbound with dust jacketFirst edition of 2000 All color illustrations are color-separated and reproduced in the finest technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and color range. The Gimme Shelter series is comprised of 3 segments: Bombshells, of which the Untitled (Natalie Riding Lance -1) is a part of, presents nude figures - or “targets” - as accessories to destruction, and contrasts the work of nature with the inventions of humanity. Women attempt to tempt, cajole, beg, and admonish, while the weapons they address (including one of the unused nuclear bombs built for the 1945 Japan attacks) sit resolutely unaware. The complementary Still Lifes, meanwhile, contains portraits of isolated missiles and bombs angled against a brilliant backdrop of blue. With no terrestrial reference points, the