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Brad Feuerhelm

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5+ verk 9 medlemmar 3 recensioner

Verk av Brad Feuerhelm

Dein Kampf (2019) 5 exemplar
Goodbye America (2016) (1901) 1 exemplar
Soft Touch 1 exemplar

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Granta 120: Medicine (2012) — Fotograf — 82 exemplar

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In Walker Evans and James Agee’s 1936 book “Let us now Praise Famous Men”, Evans and Agee conspired to illustrate the life of American sharecropper’s plight during Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal highlighting the struggles of Americans living during the dust bowl years and the resulting poverty that ensued. Saccharine to the point of decay, the assignment was funded by Fortune magazine for which Evans worked. Presently, Brad Feuerhelm has taken the iconic photo-literary tract of Evans and Agee and has appropriated the tract to inverse the use of the photographic image in a political dialogue through the act of violent destruction by physically shooting all 200+ copies of the book point blank with a glock .45 in the summer of 2014. The author was in his words “at war with the obnoxiously persistent and tentacled filament of the military industrial complex in America and the societal Disneyland (absurdity) that has invoked complacency over the mechanics of it at large”. Perhaps direct and somewhat abusive, the bullet that pierces each of the pages transcends the nominal photo-book into that of an anti-iconographic relic. The book becomes object in which violence has occurred and each of the portraits becomes a transgressive display of intolerance towards societal disregard for the economic war machine. Heads of several multi-national arms corporations, both domestic and international find their own image torn asunder by a violent act. The irony of which is that the book itself becomes an object to be re-sold to an audience pointing at the cyclical and futile irony of the presiding problem of complacency within the ever-expanding pursuit of capital largess through arms and military equipment sales. Possibly the first book to be physically shot in such a manner, the accompanying text by Feuerhelm and Michael Salu point combatively to the problems of becoming complacent under life at its extremes.… (mer)
 
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petervanbeveren | Aug 17, 2021 |
De son titre à son arrangement formel de langage, Dein Kampf de Brad Feuerhelm propose un commentaire sur nos inquiétudes cycliques à propos de l’idéologie. L'anxiété est implicite dans ses photographies et Berlin est leur toile de fond naturelle, étant une ville dans laquelle plusieurs idéologies se sont heurtées au XXe siècle. La ville illustre le bourbier de possibilités dans lequel les tensions du récit historique et du doute politique et idéologique contemporain se jouent dans des motifs visuels à travers le paysage. Des fragments du passé et des symboles de la modernité capitaliste sous-tendent le travail - les banques, les compagnies d'assurance et les gens comme des effigies de citoyens apparaissent comme un miasme masqué, le spectre du passé, du présent et pas d'avenir. Le schéma du pépin et les méthodes d'appropriation dans l'œuvre de Feuerhelm sont de subtiles recherches sur les conditions contemporaines de la peur et de la confusion. Des associations lâches sur l'évolution de l'avenir dans le domaine de la technologie, de la religion, de l'immigration et de l'avenir de l'image photographique sont également très importantes. Dein Kampf est la proposition de Feuerhelm sur la façon dont nous activons l'image et l'idéologie sous la forme d'un livre.… (mer)
 
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petervanbeveren | Jun 14, 2021 |
Publisher's presentation of Brad Feuerhelm's photobook:
"Soft Touch re-works images pulled from various magazines and re-formatted into a sticker album where what remains becomes a comment on the use of empathy within photography and its economy of mass distribution.

Considering the image consumer and image collection practices, the book highlights a cultural interest in the horror that photography can apply in its negated subjects: biometrics, pixelation, obfuscation and censor bars.

Giving access to an already collected and filled album, Soft Touch becomes a meta-experience of collecting what another once collected and as a consequence, a contemporary photographic practice of accumulation."

This book was shortlisted for the "Author Book Award" at the "Rencontres d'Arles 2016" festival.
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petervanbeveren | Jul 10, 2020 |

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Verk
5
Även av
1
Medlemmar
9
Popularitet
#968,587
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
3
ISBN
2