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Timm Rautert : Anfang = beginnings

Title
Timm Rautert : Anfang = beginnings / Text, Oskar Negt [and three others].
Publication
Gottingen : Steidl, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Negt, Oskar
  • Rautert, Timm, 1941-
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm
Summary
In 2007 Timm Rautert, then professor of photography at Leipzig's Academy of Fine Arts, began photographing his students with their partners and young children among the designer furniture, second-hand treasures and kids' toys of their apartments. So began a decade-long documentary experiment that shows German families in their revealing home environments and their beginnings as a family unit, with all its complex social connotations.The book consists of 40 triptychs, one of each family. At the center is the mother/father/child group; to the left and right the living spaces seem to fold outwards, like a winged altarpiece. Rautert thus questions the idea of the 'holy family' today though the prism of a specific generation's middle class. His sitters gaze towards us (the children do their best), with varying degrees of formality. Rautert's technical approach is appropriately pared back, creating a neutral stage on which his subjects pose and helping him to seize, in his words, 'that selfsame moment to look at that which I perhaps did not immediately grasp.'
Uniform Title
  • Timm Rautert.
  • Timm Rautert. English.
Alternative Title
  • Anfang
  • Beginnings
Subjects
Genre/Form
Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Texts in German and English.
Call Number
JQF 19-863
ISBN
  • 9783958295285
  • 3958295282
OCLC
1091689491
Title
Timm Rautert : Anfang = beginnings / Text, Oskar Negt [and three others].
Publisher
Gottingen : Steidl, 2019.
Edition
Erste Auflage.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Texts in German and English.
Added Author
Negt, Oskar, writer of supplementary textual content.
Rautert, Timm, 1941- Photographs. Selections.
Added Title
Timm Rautert.
Timm Rautert. English.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-863
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