Are you talking to me?
by Thomas Florschuetz
Steidl & Partners
No one has ever seen the human body quite like Thomas Florschuetz. He brings parts of the body — legs, fingers, heels, arms — into view and composes them into photos full of visual impact and confusing vagueness. His own body serves as the motif. Not obviously posed or arranged, it supplies the banal photo fragments that reveal their sensual power once they’ve been turned into something artificial, unreal.
Objects from daily life are also presented by Florschuetz in such a way that they transcend their normal function. He photographs portions of plants or buildings, windows and curtains, enlarges them into oversized photos with a three-dimensional quality and mounts them on triptychs or hangs them in groups. Handled in this way, the subjects of his photographs attain an aura of mystery, detached from the world.
Are you talking to me? is the first comprehensive presentation of work made by the artist.
Objects from daily life are also presented by Florschuetz in such a way that they transcend their normal function. He photographs portions of plants or buildings, windows and curtains, enlarges them into oversized photos with a three-dimensional quality and mounts them on triptychs or hangs them in groups. Handled in this way, the subjects of his photographs attain an aura of mystery, detached from the world.
Are you talking to me? is the first comprehensive presentation of work made by the artist.
- Price
- UK £20.00
- US $35.00
- EC €30.00
- With essays by Christoph Schreier, Mark Gisbourne and Aris Fioretos
- 160 pages, 105 colour plates
- 30 cm x 25 cm
- Sewn softcover with flaps
- Bilingual English/German text
- Steidl & Partners
- ISBN: 3-86521-006-6
- Publication date: April 2004