Product Details
Hardcover
128 pages
Scalo Verlag Ac
Published 2000
About the Author
Barbara Davatz was born in Zurich in 1944. She has exhibited her work since 1992 in many group and solo exhibitions, including the Institut fr Moderne Kunst, Nrnberg, Germany; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano; and Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland. She lives and works in Zurich.
Book Description
Essays by Nicole Mller, Sigrid Pallmert, and Patrick Frey.
In 1982, in front of a nondescript backdrop in an anonymous studio, Barbara Davatz photographed twelve young couples in formal poses, looking straight at the camera. They are lovers, close friends, relatives, or co-workers. In 1988, and then again in 1997, she renewed contact with her subjects, and produced an unflinching documentation of the continuity or change in their lives, and of the metamorphoses in their self-perception and personal style. According to Davatz "every picture is the record of a relationship; the sum of the pictures is a record of time." Davatz's direct approach to these simple portraits belies their curious power that moves us to wonder about the lives between these checkpoint years. |
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