Since the late 1960s, Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940) has been an
important figure in contemporary art, associated with such major
international art movements as minimal art, conceptual art, and
visual poetry. His artistic work embraces an equally wide range of
media: sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.
This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into
Downsbrough's diverse and complex use of photography within his
artistic work over the last 40 years. A substantial essay by
Alexander Streitberger discusses the artist's photographic work
which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and
books within its aesthetic and historical context. Streitberger
relates Downsbrough's work to fundamental issues of photographic
practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the
representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an
aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship
between still and moving image, and the context of
presentation.
The rich image material some of which has never been published
before is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a
fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own
intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the
artist, this book offers a genuine dialogue between artistic
practice and theoretical reflection."
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