Melanie Manchot
Subtitle: mountainworks (Montafon)
By: Herausgeber, Hans-Joachim Gögl ; Texte, Hans-Joachim Gögl, Fanni Fetzer
Contributors: Manchot, Melanie, 1966-; BTV Stadtforum (Innsbrück, Austria)
Series: Inn Situ -- 3; Fotohof Edition -- Band 283; Inn Situ -- 3.; Fotohof Edition -- Bd. 283.
Publisher: BTV Stadtforum
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Innsbruck
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9783902993830
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Video art; Snow in art
Other titles: Mountainworks (Montafon); Melanie Manchot.; Melanie Manchot. English.
Description: Sublime photographs of vast winter landscapes featuring a choreography of snowcats be-neath alpine night sky. Along-side them, workers shovelling snow, but also images of piles of snow being carted away. For some ten years now London-based photo artist Melanie Manchot has been exploring the tourist infrastructure of winter sports resorts. Following the invitation of the INN SITU series she spent several weeks in the Vorarlberg municipality of Gaschurn. The photographs for this book illustrate the work done behind the scenes to create the ?mountain experience?. Melanie Manchot?s gaze is by no means investigative or critical of tourism. Her artistic position avoids any form of polemic, preferring instead to consider inquisitively and questioningly a contradictory phenomenon of our civilisation, namely our fascination for unspoilt natural environments and the technology needed to make them accessible to us. The taming of the untamed.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck, October 2, 2019-January 25, 2020.

Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to cover.

Texts in German and English.