Your order: 0 itemsSHIRANA SHAHBAZI
First Things First
Andreas Fiedler (Ed.)
First Things First catalogs a stylized selection of images from Zürich-based Iranian photographer Shirana Shahbazi’s (b. 1974) various series created over the last decade and exhibited at the KINDL Berlin (2017). The 47 color photographs comprising this slender publication are not categorically or linearly organized but free of hierarchy. Shahbazi embraces a wide variety of photographic styles, subjects and techniques using various traditional photographic printing processes, and displays them together on each page to create a dynamic visual journey that bridges the real and the subliminal. Fruit and flower still lives are placed alongside unspectacular landscapes, casual urban scenes alongside geometric shapes and colored compositions in contrast with black-andwhite images. Shahbazi’s color-saturated images alternate between abstraction and representation. Seen together, they highlight similarities between pictures from different genres and point to structural parallels between inside and outside, organic and manufactured and natural and constructed landscapes. Brief essays by writer/critic Jens Asthoff and KINDL artistic director Andreas Fiedler.
9 ½ x 13 in. / 24 pp / 47 color
ISBN: 978-3-95679-324-0
Retail Price: $22.00
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WOLFGANG TRÄGER
A Fluxus Family Portrait Album
Kerstin Skrobanek
German art-world photographer Wolfgang Träger has long been known for his unflinching dedication to documenting international openings, performances and festivals. His passion since 1989 has been following the Fluxus movement and their charged and unpredictable global performances and happenings. Working for the German art magazine Kunstforum International, Träger seldom missed a Fluxus event, traveling from the Venice Biennale and fluxus subjektiv (1990) to Fluxus-Virus with grilled 2CV in Vienna, da capo in Wiesbaden (1992) and the grand Fluxus Medicine Show world tour (2014). Over the years, he created an invaluable visual record of a movement that dates back to the early 1960s and included art icons such as Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Carolee Schneemann and Ben Patterson. After following Fluxus’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, Träger has finally released his encyclopedic visual history, beautifully produced with 100 black-and-white historical images and poignant essays. His years of dedication come together to create a breathtaking “who’s who” of this pivotal art movement. Viva la Fluxus!
Softcover / 7 ¾ x 10 in.
168 pp / 100 b&w
ISBN: 978-3-86442-216-4
Retail Price: $42.00