Photoshooting
Thomas Bachler
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2011
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-84-615-1821-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the photography action told in this book, as Bachler describes it, members of the audience are invited to have their photograph taken with the artist inside a 'room' created in the gallery. The unusual thing about the photograph is that Bachler takes it with a gun. He stands next to the person being photographed, positioned in front of a home-made black box (the camera), and shoots, thus opening the 'lens' that captures the dual image. The action will take place during the first weeks of the exhibition at each venue and is accompanied by a selection of photographs entitled Crime Scenes. These were also produced specifically for the show and, according to the curator Christian Domínguez, inspired the Photoshooting project.
More details
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Spanish
Place of publication
Madrid
Spain
Target group
Künstler, Fotografen, Fachpublikum, Kunstinteressierte
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
47
36 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 47 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
mit 36 Fotos in Farbe, 47 in s/w
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-84-615-1821-0 (9788461518210)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Thomas Bachler was born in 1961 in Detmold, Germany. Started studying Art under professor Floris M. Neusüss at the Kassel Art Academy. In 1985 he organized the first pinhole-camera congress in Germany; numerous works, exhibitions, publications and workshops about the pinhole camera have followed since then. He completed his studies in 1989. The emphasis of his artistic work is the relationship between human perception and technical reception. He creates cameras, works with light and slide installations, publishes books and uses many different photographic techniques to bring to fruition his artistic concepts. In 2002 he curated the exhibition Fotografie als Experiment for the Kunsthalle Erfurt and, in 2005, he curated the exhibition Borderline of Photography for the Queensland Centre for Photography, in Brisbane, Australia.