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9783905514544

From the abundance of Post-Modern photographic strategies currently in use this book focuses upon what is surely the most spectacular: the "constructed" photograph. The term refers to works of photography in which the motif has been staged especially for the picture and in which the respective artist, in addition to his role as a photographer, also plays the part of director, stage and costume designer, make-up artist and from time to time of performer as well.

The main section of the book is followed by a selection of works that recapitulates the pre-history of the "arranged and staged" photograph beginning in the late 1960s and recreates the climate in which the photographer-stagecrafters of the 1980s found their point of departure.

Analysis and Simulation

Strategies for the Instrumentalization of Reality / Andreas Vowinckel

Arranged, Constructed and Staged

From Taking to Making Pictures / Michael Kohler

Self-Presentations. Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Tjarda Sixma, Teun Hocks

Narrative Tableaux. Joel-Peter Witkin, Joe Gantz, Nic Nicosia, Sandy Skoglund, Patrick Nagatani & Andree Tracey, Bernard Faucon, Boyd Webb

Miniature Stages. Tom Drahos, Arthur Tress, Henk Tas, Ellen Brooks, James Casebere, Rommert Boonstra

Still Lifes. Victor Schrager, Calum Colvin, Milan Kunc, Bernhard Prinz, Jan Groover, Tim Head

Sculptures / Installations. John Divola, Pascal Kern, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Ton Zwerver, David Haxton, Winfred Evers, Barbara Kasten.

Still-life photography > Exhibitions.

Performance art > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.

Photographers > Biography.

Kunstverein München.

Kunsthalle Nürnberg.

Forum Böttcherstrasse Bremen.

Badischer Kunstverein.