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Structure / Isabelle Boccon-Gibod ; texte, Daniel Mendelsohn.
LIBRA TR681.F28 B63 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelsohn, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Boccon-Gibod, Isabelle--Exhibitions.
- Boccon-Gibod, Isabelle.
- Photography of families--Exhibitions.
- Photography of families.
- Portrait photography--Exhibitions.
- Portrait photography.
- Black-and-white photography--Exhibitions.
- Black-and-white photography.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 82 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Hemeria, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Texts in English and French.
- Summary:
- From 1839 when it was invented, photography has served to create portraits of individuals, and soon thereafter portraits of families, later placed in photo albums. Photography, collected and archived, entered the intimate sphere, enabling people to arrange the fragmented images of their lives as they saw fit. Following its forerunners (miniature portraits, silhouettes, physionotraces), the photographic portrait also served the new expectations of the emerging urban bourgeoisie and its need for social representation. Studios opened up in cities everywhere to meet the fast growing demand. In addition, the new medium distinguishted itself with its esthetic superiority. Even as it emerged, although the technique was still very primitive, photography enjoyed an exceptional quality of artistic finish (Gisele Freund) . What can photography show us to day of the visible and invisible aspects of family sociology? How do the roles we expect them to play betray the emotional realities and complexities of lived life? wonders Daniel Mendelsohn, in his introduction entitled Unknown Faces/ Redeeming Structures . By creating this corpus of fixed black and white images, each composed in a large 5'x7' frame, the photographer has produced a work of anthropological scope, reaching beyond representation by placing the subject at palpable distance, thereby objectifying it. Exhibition: Salon H, Paris, France (12.06-17.07.2021).
- Notes:
- Chiefly illustrated.
- ISBN:
- 2490952056
- 9782490952052
- OCLC:
- 1248898642
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