
Shifting Places
Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs
Alexander Streitberger(Author)
Leuven University Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 8. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-90-5867-872-0 (ISBN)
Description
Since the late 1960s Peter Downsbrough has been an important figure in contemporary art, associated with major international art movements as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry. In his artistic work he explores various fields including sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography. This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into Downsbrough's diverse and complex use of photography within his artistic work over the last 40 years. A substantial essay by Alexander Streitberger discusses the artist's photographic work - which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and books - within its aesthetic and historical context. Streitberger relates Downsbrough's work to fundamental issues of photographic practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship between still and moving image, and the context of presentation. The rich image material - some of which has never been published before - is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the artist, the book offers a real dialogue between artistic practice and theoretical reflexion.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Reviews / Votes
Verticale resonantiesVolkmar Muehleis ontrafelt in een bespreking van 'Shifting Places' de blik van auteur Alexander Streitberger op de eigenzinnige subtiliteit van Downsbroughs fotografisch werk.
FAKtor, Maart 2012 Presenting many unpublished photographs, 'Shifting Places' gives occasion to consider this especially important category of the artist's work. Some of the most beautiful images convey a sense of uncanny formalization, whereby the obviously deliberate framing of some particular element, such as the central zip of a center pole of a sunlit New York subway car (typically inferable as a row of several) allows, in a 1978 image, for seemingly fortuitous alignments of shadows, and compensations, more than contrived compositional balance, in the different distributions of elements, left and right. I love the resultant sense of unforced order, and so would Kant!
Joseph Mashek, The Brooklyn Rail
More details
Series
Edition
01
Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
140 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5867-872-0 (9789058678720)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alexander Streitberger is professor of art history at UCLouvain.
Author
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art HistoryUCLouvain & Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture
Content
Contents
Place and Time
Contexts
Color Photographs
Frames
Still Moving
References
Interview
Biography
Place and Time
Contexts
Color Photographs
Frames
Still Moving
References
Interview
Biography