
Publisher | Spector Books |
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Edition | Hardcover , 72 Pages |
Publisher's description
This series of still-life photographs by Manfred Paul was produced while the GDR still existed. As photographs, they go beyond the general symbols of still life; they are time doubly frozen: just as fish, leaves, and branches become frozen at the bottom of a lake, petrified in clear ice before the first snowfall, so the still life — a life without time — remains suspended, for as long as the picture’s materiality can withstand the ravages of time. Things are abandoned, with apparent carelessness — a bunch of tulips in a glass vase wilts in infinite beauty, their black-and-white sharpness emitting an almost painful appeal against the transience and replaceability of the blooms. In their irredeemable alienation they inevitably become a devotional mental image of human existence.
Specifications
Book title | Nature morte |
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Photographer | Manfred Paul |
ISBN 10 | 3959050798 / 3-95905-079-8 |
ISBN 13 | 9783959050791 / 978-3-95905-079-1 |
Publisher | Spector Books |
Publish date | Jan 2016 |
Book format | Hardcover |
Pages | 72 Pages |
Dimensions | 24,75 x 31,75 cm / 9.75 x 12.5 inches |
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