Theseus & Kentaur / Traffic Assistants

Theseus & Kentaur / Traffic Assistants
Author: Frank Berger
Publisher: Spector Books
Language: English-German
Pages: 320
Size: 24 x 30.5
Weight: 1.3960 kg
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783944669144
Availability: In stock
Price: €32.00
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Frank Berger has developed a photographic method which can be described as a gesture of insistence. He produces extensive series of photos of certain settings, in particular street scenes, that depict variations of similar, mundane constellations in almost identical framings, and which are yet significant to the photographer. Shot in high-resolution on reversal film, the pictures do not capture a »unique moment«, but rather insist on the workings of the »optical unconscious« of photography. This artist book brings together the series »Traffic Assistants« (Shanghai, 2008) and »Theseus & Kentaur« (Vienna, 2007). Human figures are shown in what appear to be opposing contexts: as the heroic subjects of artistic representation and touristic contemplation at the Vienna Museum of Fine Arts, and then again in a Chaplinesque choreography of assistant policemen in Shanghai trying to control the local traffic. (Florian Ebner)

Designed by Till Gathmann
Text by Florian Ebner