Author: Lise Sarfati 38070
Title: Lise Sarfati: Acta Est
Description: Phaidon Press, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 104. Documents the human and architectural ruins of post-communist Russia: a world of decaying buildings and abandoned factories, psychiatric institutes and detention centres, all peopled with lost characters. "Acta Est" is the first book by the French photographer-artist Lise Sarfati. Composed of images made during extended visits to Russia in the 1990s, "Acta Est" is neither travelogue nor photo-journalistic essay. Rather, Sarfati weaves daring detailed descriptions of the Russian environments that fascinate her to create a visual drama of dysfunction and deterioration, change and beauty. The title - from the Latin phrase Acta Est Fabula, meaning 'the play is over' - signals her insistence that the work not be read as journalism but as a work of theatrical imagination. Sarfati builds a disturbing world of decaying buildings and neglected factories, which she brings to an eerie life with lost characters: young transsexuals and teenage runaways interned in 're-education' camps. What results is a body of beautiful, engaging and disturbing photographs that are both a powerful historical record of Russia at the end of an era and examples of the unique poetry of a powerful new visual artist conjuring her own world. The forty-six featured photographs sequenced by Sarfati are accompanied by a thought-provoking introduction by the Russian-born art historian Olga Medvedkova. ISBN: 9780714848426. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780714848426
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Title: Lise Sarfati: Acta Est
Description: Phaidon Press, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 104. Documents the human and architectural ruins of post-communist Russia: a world of decaying buildings and abandoned factories, psychiatric institutes and detention centres, all peopled with lost characters. "Acta Est" is the first book by the French photographer-artist Lise Sarfati. Composed of images made during extended visits to Russia in the 1990s, "Acta Est" is neither travelogue nor photo-journalistic essay. Rather, Sarfati weaves daring detailed descriptions of the Russian environments that fascinate her to create a visual drama of dysfunction and deterioration, change and beauty. The title - from the Latin phrase Acta Est Fabula, meaning 'the play is over' - signals her insistence that the work not be read as journalism but as a work of theatrical imagination. Sarfati builds a disturbing world of decaying buildings and neglected factories, which she brings to an eerie life with lost characters: young transsexuals and teenage runaways interned in 're-education' camps. What results is a body of beautiful, engaging and disturbing photographs that are both a powerful historical record of Russia at the end of an era and examples of the unique poetry of a powerful new visual artist conjuring her own world. The forty-six featured photographs sequenced by Sarfati are accompanied by a thought-provoking introduction by the Russian-born art historian Olga Medvedkova. ISBN: 9780714848426. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780714848426
Price: EUR 75.00 = appr. US$ 81.51 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 3367156
- Book number: 3367156
See more books from our catalog: Fotografie