"BEAT STREULI: NEW YORK CITY 2000-2002" par Vincent KATZ. Editions Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit. 2003. in-4, couverture cartonnée sous jaquette photo. 216 pages. Texte bilingue Anglais / Allemand de Vincent Katz, illustré de 119 reproductions photographiques, dont 104 en couleurs, hors texte dont de très nombreuses en double page, par Beat Streuli.

Exemplaire numéroté & signé par Beat Streuli.

 

"Beat Streuli's photographs of street scenes from the metropolises of the world offer snapshots of everyday life. The protagonists of the pictures are usually unaware that they are being photographed, and are caught in moments in which they seem withdrawn, with no sense of the effect they have on their surroundings, appearing disconnected even when with other people. Presented by Streuli as large-format slides or projected onto exhibition walls as loops, these pictures lift the individual out of his or her - relative - insignificance and fixed in museum-like eternity. Again and again, the Swiss-born artist is drawn to New York for his work, where he creates pictures of a special brilliancy, with passers-by stepping out into bright sunlight from the shadows cast by skyscrapers. Architecture, billboards, or colorful surfaces of passing trucks serve as fragmented backgrounds for people rushing by, excerpt-like constructs of images that in their aesthetics evoke the painting of the American Photorealists. This book of photographs, published in a limited edition and hand-signed by the artist, presents a selection of Beat Streuli's recent New York works."

 

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