White Line No. 01
Mit Graphiken von Wolfgang Schultheiß und einem Vorwort von Prof. John Wood. Auf 300 Exemplare limitierte und von Thomas Karsten nummerierte und signierte Ausgabe.
1st Edition
Published in March 2008
Book
Hardback
86 pages
978-3-936165-39-5 (ISBN)
Description
Unter dem geheimnisvollen Titel: WHITE LINE No. 1 eröffnet einer der weltweit besten Fotografen - Thomas Karsten - eine Buchreihe in der edition GALERIE VEVAIS, die Lebensfreude durch eine gesunde Sexualität zum Thema haben.
". Looking at Karsten's books, one would think that he set it as his task to cleanse the photographic world of unarousing pseudoeroticism. Karsten rescues erotic photography from the extremes of bland nudes in clichéd, sexless poses that stirs not the slightest thrill to those equally boring fetishistic images of humiliation and domination - fisting to being urinated upon - images with as limited an audience as that for the bland, sexless nudes. Erotic art, like any other visual art, is only good if it pulls us back again and again to gaze, to wonder, and to consider. Its power is the same as that of great music which demands we listen again and again, no matter how many times we already have, or great poetry whose melodies and metaphors make us read, reread, and then read again. The mark of great art is that it is forever fresh and forever rewarding. Unlike pornography, which can lose its erotic charge upon subsequent viewings and necessitate the need for fresh, new examples, true erotic art, regardless of how often it is viewed, remains aesthetically compelling and sexually stimulating. The captured erotic instant must be so caught that the fire of passion burns through time and circumstance - just as it does in the Barberini Faun or Rodin's similar fauness, Iris, massagère des Dieux, in Rembrandt's etchings, in Courbet's Origine du monde, the watercolors and drawings of Schiele, in Modigliani, Pascin, Balthus, Belmer, and other masters of the erotic.
Thomas Karsten celebrates the sexual as it should be celebrated, as healthy men and women have always celebrated it .", Prof. John Wood
Außerdem erschienen/Also available: Exklusive Ausgabe mit einem vom Künstler nummerierten und signierten Silbergelatine-Abzug / Slipcased book with a gelatin silver print, numbered and signed by the artist
und eine exklusive Mappe, mit 3 vom Künstler nummerierten und signierten Pigmentprints / and a Exclusive Edition with 3 pigment prints numbered and signed by the artist - www.galerievevais.de
". Looking at Karsten's books, one would think that he set it as his task to cleanse the photographic world of unarousing pseudoeroticism. Karsten rescues erotic photography from the extremes of bland nudes in clichéd, sexless poses that stirs not the slightest thrill to those equally boring fetishistic images of humiliation and domination - fisting to being urinated upon - images with as limited an audience as that for the bland, sexless nudes. Erotic art, like any other visual art, is only good if it pulls us back again and again to gaze, to wonder, and to consider. Its power is the same as that of great music which demands we listen again and again, no matter how many times we already have, or great poetry whose melodies and metaphors make us read, reread, and then read again. The mark of great art is that it is forever fresh and forever rewarding. Unlike pornography, which can lose its erotic charge upon subsequent viewings and necessitate the need for fresh, new examples, true erotic art, regardless of how often it is viewed, remains aesthetically compelling and sexually stimulating. The captured erotic instant must be so caught that the fire of passion burns through time and circumstance - just as it does in the Barberini Faun or Rodin's similar fauness, Iris, massagère des Dieux, in Rembrandt's etchings, in Courbet's Origine du monde, the watercolors and drawings of Schiele, in Modigliani, Pascin, Balthus, Belmer, and other masters of the erotic.
Thomas Karsten celebrates the sexual as it should be celebrated, as healthy men and women have always celebrated it .", Prof. John Wood
Außerdem erschienen/Also available: Exklusive Ausgabe mit einem vom Künstler nummerierten und signierten Silbergelatine-Abzug / Slipcased book with a gelatin silver print, numbered and signed by the artist
und eine exklusive Mappe, mit 3 vom Künstler nummerierten und signierten Pigmentprints / and a Exclusive Edition with 3 pigment prints numbered and signed by the artist - www.galerievevais.de