Overview
This series of still-life photographs by Manfred Paul was produced while the GDR still existed. As photographs, they go beyond the general symbols of still life; they are time doubly frozen: just as fish, leaves, and branches become frozen at the bottom of a lake, petrified in clear ice before the first snowfall, so the still life -- a life without time -- remains suspended, for as long as the picture's materiality can withstand the ravages of time. Things are abandoned, with apparent carelessness -- a bunch of tulips in a glass vase wilts in infinite beauty, their black-and-white sharpness emitting an almost painful appeal against the transience and replaceability of the blooms. In their irredeemable alienation they inevitably become a devotional mental image of human existence.
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Publisher: Spector Books
Imprint: Spector Books
ISBN: 9783959050791
ISBN 10: 3959050798
Pages: 72
Publication Date: 01 June 2016
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General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In stock
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