Artists at 5

`A book bringing together about 160 portraits of artists when they were "about" five years old. Artists at 5 aims to take a look at artists' before they had any realisation of their future selves, taking into account the innocence of childhood alongside Ryan Gander's preoccupations with the understanding of time, divergent historic potentials, "what-if" para-possible futures and the privilege of hindsight and retrospect. Presented chronologically alongside a date and place in which the photograph was taken, it gives an history of amateur photography across all continents. Starting from the early 20th century to the most recent generation of artists whose photographs were taken in the early 21st Century, the book show also progression in technology and attitudes toward the camera.' [publisher's website].

Published on the occasion of Ryan Gander's exhibition `Three Young American Artists?' at the Mennour Gallery, Paris, 6 June - 25 July 2024.