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Zusatztext
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"I went to Central Park to find the place behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Jennifer Levin had been killed. It was bewildering to find a scene so beautiful. to see the same sunlight pour down indifferently on the earth. As I showed the photograph of this site to friends, I realized that I was not alone in thinking of her when walking by the Met. It occurred to me that I held something within: a list of places that I cannot forget because of the tragedies that identify them, and I began to wonder if each of us has such a list. I set out to photograph sites that were marked during my lifetime. Yet, there was something else that drew me to this work. I think of it as the question of knowability. Experience has taught me again and again that you can never know what lies beneath a surface or behind a façade. Our sense of place, our understanding of photographs of the landscape is inevitably limited and fraught with misreading."
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Autorenportrait
- Joel Sternfeld, geboren 1944 in New York, gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Fotografen der Gegenwart. Im Steidl Verlag erschienen seine letzten beiden Bücher: Walking the High Line über eine aufgegebene Hochbahnlinie in Manhattan, die sich zu einem parkartigen Biotop entwickelt hat, sowie Treading on Kings, eine Dokumentation über Demonstranten beim G8-Gipfel der größten Wirtschaftsnationen in Genua. Zu Sternfelds zahlreichen Auszeichnungen zählen zwei Guggenheim Fellowships und der Prix de Rome.
Detailansicht
On This Site
Landscape in Memoriam
ISBN/EAN: 9783869304342
Umbreit-Nr.: 1895091
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 112 S.
Format in cm: 1.6 x 30.5 x 25.5
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 25.03.2012
Auflage: 1/2012