European portrait photography since 1990
By: edited by Frits Gierstberg
Contributors: Dujardin, Paul; Gescinska, Alicja, 1981-; Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium); Nederlands fotomuseum; Mouseio Phōtographias Thessalonikēs
Publisher: BOZAR Books; Prestel
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783791349275
Subjects: Portrait photography; Exhibitions; History
Description: The 1990s saw a resurgence of the portrait genre of photography, especially in Europe, where the collapse of communism and the solidification of the European Union raised enormously important questions about national identity and shared historical and cultural values. This volume delves into this important development, featuring full-page reproductions of work by Rineke Dijkstra, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Ruff, Nikos Markou, Anders Petersen, Clare Strand, and others from dozens of countries around the continent. Taken as a whole, these portraits comprise a new genre - one that represented a break from postmodernist strategies and which allowed for experimentation and the exchange of ideas.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition "Faces Now : European Portrait Photography Since 1990", held at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, February 6-May 17, 2015 ; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, May 30-August 30, 2015 ; Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, September 11, 2015-February 28, 2016.
Table of contents: title: European portraits : an introduction / Frits Gierstberg; title: Catalogue; title: Round table discussion : Photography and the renaissance of the portrait / Paul Dujardin; title: The face of Europe : regarding European identities / Alicja Gescinska.