Christine Ljubanovic: Conversation Portraits. Photo-Suites, 1974-2014

ISBN-13: 9783777425283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 164 str.

Christine Ljubanovic

Opis

One of the most interesting facets of Christine Ljubanovic s remarkable artistic career is her series of black-and-white "Conversation Portraits, " so named because the compositions of twenty-four or thirty-six individual portraits of artists; writers; dancers; curators; film, theater, and museum directors; and other friends form narratives of her encounters with them.
"Christine Ljubanovic: Conversation Portraits. Photo-Suites, 1974 2014" brings together sixty of the portraits taken over the past forty years. Among those pictured are Yoko Ono; Thomas Hirschhorn; painter Arnulf Rainer; photographer Gisele Freund; Alfred Pacquement, director of the Centre Pompidou; and poet and novelist Raoul Schrott, who has also contributed a poem to the book. In each case, Ljubanovic and the subject of the portrait chose the meeting place together so that it conveys something of the personality of the subject and provides a framework for the photographic conversation. In addition to composed studio portraits, Ljubanovic s photographs therefore show her subjects against the backdrop of theaters, museums, street scenes, city parks, and Parisian cafes. Essays by Robert Fleck and Julia Garimorth complete the book.
With the "Conversation Portraits" series, Ljubanovic has produced a fascinating picture of today s artistic and cultural scene, and the book will make a contribution to our understanding of this body of work.
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O autorze

Raoul Schrott, Jg. 1964, studierte Literatur und Sprachwissenschaft in Innsbruck, Norwich, Paris und Berlin. Er lebt in Innsbruck und Seillans (Provence). Für sein Werk wurde er bereits mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Robert Fleck, 1957 in Wien geboren, ist Direktor der Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Er hat unter anderem bei Gilles Deleuze und Michel Foucault studiert und 1988 in Innsbruck mit einer Arbeit über die Revolution von 1848 promoviert. Bei Philo Fine Arts ist erschienen: HIER DISTANS. Arnulf Rainer, Dieter Roth & die Wiener Künstlerbohème der Siebziger (2008)