Title: Constructed realities :
Authors: Köhler, Michael,; Felix, Zdenek.; Vowinckel, Andreas.; Vowinckel, Andreas.; Köhler, Michael,; Kunstverein München; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Forum Böttcherstrasse Bremen.; Badischer Kunstverein
Date: 1995
Publisher: Edition Stemmle,
Physical description: 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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.
Notes: "This publication is the official catalogue to the exhibition, 'Das konstruierte Bild-Fotografie arrangiert und inszeniert'"--T.p. verso. Exhibition held at the Kunstverein München, the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, the Forum Böttcherstrasse, Bremen, and the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Subject headings (LCSH): Installations (Art)--Exhibitions.; Performance art--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.; Photographers--Biography.; Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions; Photography--History--20th century--Exhibitions.; Photomontage--Exhibitions.; Staged photography.; Still-life photography--Exhibitions.