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MONA KUHN: EVIDENCE By Gordon Baldwin & Frederic Tuten - Hardcover
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Item specifics
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- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Steidl
- ISBN-10
- 3865213723
- ISBN
- 9783865213723
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steidl Gmbh & Co. Ohg
ISBN-10
3865213723
ISBN-13
9783865213723
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57579930
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mona Kuhn: Evidence
Number of Pages
88 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Individual Photographers / General, General, Subjects & Themes / Nudes, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
43.8 Oz
Item Length
12.3 in
Item Width
11.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
Critics have observed that Mona Kuhn's subjects seem "nude but not naked . Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin." Kuhn, who photographs in the naturist or nudist community, often in domestic interiors, weaves together gestures from the traditional iconography of nude studies with the comfortable body language of her subjects, creating a visual patois at once classical and contemporary. And beneath the mellow surfaces of her photographs lies an explosive energy: the artist's controlled play with the power of sensuality. Tension and uneasiness coexist with all that sunlight and soft flesh. The subjects and their gestures are suggestive but ultimately ambiguous. Tenuously held planes of focus provoke the imagination. Kuhn works very close to her subjects, often with a depth of field of only a few inches. Real world and image world seem to blend together as her figures unite the reality of human complexity with the blissful essence of nature. With only sparse reference to physical surroundings, they appear to float in an idyllic picture space, part of a dreamlike narrative just beyond the viewer's comprehension. These exceptional photographs exist in a space created by the artist and subject alone--the viewer is given a single fascinating glimpse, suspended in time, and then an enduring sense of the resilience and vulnerability of the human body., The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn's intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images which balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination. A Los Angeles-based artist of German-Brazilian ancestry, Kuhn photographs in naturist communities in France. The models are her friends, and the resulting photographs reveal a comfortable and graceful intimacy between the artist and her subjects. Containing luscious young bodies that suggest the meditative repose of classical statuary, the mood is languorous, projecting an almost Edenic eroticism that is neither "sexy" nor exploitative., Critics have observed that Mona Kuhn's subjects seem "nude but not naked.... Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin." Kuhn, who photographs in the naturist or nudist community, often in domestic interiors, weaves together gestures from the traditional iconography of nude studies with the comfortable body language of her subjects, creating a visual patois at once classical and contemporary. And beneath the mellow surfaces of her photographs lies an explosive energy: the artist's controlled play with the power of sensuality. Tension and uneasiness coexist with all that sunlight and soft flesh. The subjects and their gestures are suggestive but ultimately ambiguous. Tenuously held planes of focus provoke the imagination. Kuhn works very close to her subjects, often with a depth of field of only a few inches. Real world and image world seem to blend together as her figures unite the reality of human complexity with the blissful essence of nature. With only sparse reference to physical surroundings, they appear to float in an idyllic picture space, part of a dreamlike narrative just beyond the viewer's comprehension. These exceptional photographs exist in a space created by the artist and subject alone--the viewer is given a single fascinating glimpse, suspended in time, and then an enduring sense of the resilience and vulnerability of the human body.
LC Classification Number
TR647
Text by
Baldwin, Gordon, Tuten, Frederic
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