Vintage. Excellent. An artist’s book in 2 parts – a companion to Kutlug Ataman’s 2007 video work Paradise,that questions the notion of paradise as both a vital promise and a banal myth from the context of Southern California, through interviews with 24 persons. One part of the book gathers photos of the interviewees taken on location by Ataman; the other part includes new essays by Aimee Chang (curator of Contemporary Art at OCMA, Newport Beach); Norman Klein (cultural critical and urban historian, Los Angeles); and Irit Rogoff (critical theorist and art historian, London).
