Shifting Places

Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs
01. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-5867-872-0
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Lieven Gevaert Series

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Streitberger, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Place and Time
Contexts
Color Photographs
Frames
Still Moving
References
Interview

Biography

Über Autor(innen)

Streitberger, Alexander
Alexander Streitberger is professor of modern and contemporary art history at the UCLouvain and director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture.