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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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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.
Alternative Title
Theseus und Kentaur, Nr. 1-79.
Subject
  • Berger, Frank, 1972- > Exhibitions
  • Berger, Frank, 1972-
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • Repeat photography > Exhibitions
  • Street photography > Shanghai > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Street photography
  • China > Shanghai
Note
  • Title from slip case.
  • Brief essay on slipcase in German and English translation by Florian Ebner.
Contents
[Vol. 1]. Traffic assistants = Jiaotong xiebuangyuan -- [v. 2]. Theseus und Kentaur, Nr. 1-79.
ISBN
  • 9783944669144
  • 3944669142
OCLC
  • ocn905487294
  • 905487294
  • SCSB-5809156
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries