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Traffic assistants ; Theseus und Kentaur
- Title
- Traffic assistants ; Theseus und Kentaur / Frank Berger ; Übersetzung = translation: Simon Cowper.
- Author
- Berger, Frank, 1972-
- Publication
- Leipzig : Spector Books, 2014.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | Use in library | MFX+ (Berger) 15-5054 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | Use in library | MFX+ (Berger) 15-5054 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ebner, Florian
- Description
- 2 volumes (75, 79 unnumbered leaves) : all color photographs; 30 cm
- Summary
- Leipzig photographer Frank Berger brings together two projects, "Traffic Assistants" (Shanghai 2008) and "Theseus and Kentaur" (Vienna 2007) in this handsome slipcased two-volume set accompanying a museum exhibition. Comprised of extensive series of photographic images taken in a single setting, both projects depict variations of mundane dramas in identical frames. Shot in high-resolution on reversal color slide film and exhibited as projections, the pictures do not capture a "unique moment,"; but (in exhibition) are presented in an endless loop of similar but layered images, a method that perhaps can be described as a gesture of insistence. Human figures become heroic subjects of contemplation in "Theseus and Kentaur", or Chaplinesque figures in "Traffic Assistants", in which police in Shanghai try to control local traffic. Whatever the subject, the insistent look of the photographer transforms each setting into a visual stage, in which the static scenery outlasts the cast of characters.
- Subjects
- Note
- Title from slip case.
- Brief essay on slipcase in German and English translation by Florian Ebner.
- Contents
- Vol. 1. Traffic assistants = 交通协管员 -- v. 2. Theseus und Kentaur, Nr. 1-79.
- Vol. 1. Traffic assistants = Jiao tong xie guan yuan -- v. 2. Theseus und Kentaur, Nr. 1-79.
- Call Number
- MFX+ (Berger) 15-5054
- ISBN
- 9783944669144
- 3944669142
- OCLC
- 905487294
- Author
- Berger, Frank, 1972- photographer.
- Title
- Traffic assistants ; Theseus und Kentaur / Frank Berger ; Übersetzung = translation: Simon Cowper.
- Publisher
- Leipzig : Spector Books, 2014.
- Edition
- 1. Auflage = First edition.
- Type of Content
- still imagetext
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Alternate Script for Contents
- Vol. 1. Traffic assistants = 交通协管员 -- v. 2. Theseus und Kentaur, Nr. 1-79.
- Added Author
- Berger, Frank, 1972- Theseus und Kentaur.Ebner, Florian, writer of added commentary.
- Research Call Number
- MFX+ (Berger) 15-5054