Title & Author:

Constructed realities : the art of staged photography / edited by Michael Köhler ; with texts by Zdenek Felix, Michael Köhler and Andreas Vowinckel on the art of photography during the 1980s.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Edition Stemmle, ©1995.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Official catalogue to the exhibition "Das konstruierte bild-- fotographie arrangiert und inszeniert." Exhibition held at Kunstverein München as well as Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Forum Bötterstrasse, Bremen and Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).
Analysis and Simulation -- Strategies for the Instrumentalization of Reality / Andreas Vowinckel -- Arranged, Constructed and Staged -- From Taking to Making Pictures / Michael Kohler -- Self-Presentations. Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Tjarda Sixma, Teun Hocks -- Narrative Tableaux. Joel-Peter Witkin, Joe Gantz, Nic Nicosia, Sandy Skoglund, Patrick Nagatani & Andree Tracey, Bernard Faucon, Boyd Webb -- Miniature Stages. Tom Drahos, Arthur Tress, Henk Tas, Ellen Brooks, James Casebere, Rommert Boonstra -- Still Lifes. Victor Schrager, Calum Colvin, Milan Kunc, Bernhard Prinz, Jan Groover, Tim Head -- Sculptures / Installations. John Divola, Pascal Kern, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Ton Zwerver, David Haxton, Winfred Evers, Barbara Kasten.
Also issued online.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

From the abundance of Post-Modern photographic strategies currently in use this book focuses upon what is surely the most spectacular: the "constructed" photograph. The term refers to works of photography in which the motif has been staged especially for the picture and in which the respective artist, in addition to his role as a photographer, also plays the part of director, stage and costume designer, make-up artist and from time to time of performer as well.
The main section of the book is followed by a selection of works that recapitulates the pre-history of the "arranged and staged" photograph beginning in the late 1960s and recreates the climate in which the photographer-stagecrafters of the 1980s found their point of departure.

ISBN:

3905514540
9783905514544

Subject:

Staged photography.
Still-life photography Exhibitions.
Performance art Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Photographers Biography.
Photographie mise en scène.
Photographie de nature morte Expositions.
Photographes Biographies.
Manœuvre artistique Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Performance art
Photographers
Still-life photography
Artistic photography Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Köhler, Michael, 1946-
Felix, Zdenek.
Vowinckel, Andreas. Analysis and simulation--strategies for the instrumentalization of reality.
Köhler, Michael, 1946- Arranged, constructed and staged--from taking to making pictures.
Kunstverein München.
Kunsthalle Nürnberg.
Forum Böttcherstrasse Bremen.
Badischer Kunstverein.

Art of staged photography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193518
Call No.: ID TR654.K66; ID:97-B4570
Status: Available