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Billowing
- Artist
- Dennis Oppenheim
- Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Argobooks
- Format
- Artists' Books
- ISBN
- 978-3-942700-30-6
- Size
- 20 × 27 × 0.5 cm
- Length
- 24
For herexhibition Everyone’s Camera in Kunstverein Göttingen, Lisa Oppenheim explores the history of photography. The artist’s book shows natural phenomena: Billowing smoke next developments in demonstrations and events of the war. The images are created without a camera but created, for example, from negatives or created Solarisiationen. Photographs of protests stand next to volcanic eruptions, silver gelatin prints from bombing during the Second World War, in addition to harmless cloud formations.
Means of artistic appropriation, visual shortening and serial arrangement, the artist subtly negotiates the conflict that will determine the photography to the present: the conflicts between the documentary and the symbolic, between representation and abstraction. (Laura Schleussner)
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