Constructed realities
Subtitle: the art of staged photography
By: Edited by Michael Köhler ; with texts by Zdenek Felix, Michael Köhler and Andreas Vowinckel on the art of photography during the 1980s.
Contributors: Köhler, Michael, 1946-; Felix, Zdenek.; Vowinckel, Andreas.; Köhler, Michael, 1946-; Kunstverein München.; Kunsthalle Nürnberg.; Forum Böttcherstrasse Bremen.; Badischer Kunstverein.
Publisher: Edition Stemmle
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Staged photography; Still-life photography -- Exhibitions; Performance art -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions; Photographers -- Biography
Other titles: Art of staged photography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).
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.