Family as the subject of contemporary photographic observation
from Lost Family Portraits, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, 2015 © Dario Mitidieri
Since the invention of photography, the family has been the subject of photographic observation, both in personal photo albums and in artistic series.
The exhibition, conceived by Ingo Taubhorn, curator of the House of Photography, presents current artistic projects that highlight both the diversity of photographic approaches and the range of family models, ways of life, and complex interpersonal dynamics. The photographic gaze breaks through the everyday and questions prevailing norms. Traditional and new role models, intimate moments of parenting and growing old, being overwhelmed, and chaos are examined as well as love, support, and despair in one’s own family.
The series, all of which were created after 2010, were selected according to the criteria of their photographic and thematic diversity. The participating artists develop the legacy of the previous generation of artistic family photography around Larry Sultan, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann and explore the current state of the genre. In the selected series by well-known photographers from around the world, subjective experiences and objective considerations shared by people across borders are made visible. FAMILY AFFAIRS can thus also be understood as a transcontinental photographic discourse.
The catalog presents a wide variety of series and work groups and contextualizes the positions through comprehensive essays on various family themes in both photography and film, as well as within our society.
from The Family Imprint, 2013 © Nancy Borowick
from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, 2005-09 © Katharina Bosse, VG Bild- Kunst, Bonn 2021
from Midlife, 2012-19 © Elinor Carucci
from The Hereditary Estate, 2004-14 © Daniel W. Coburn
from MARTHA, 2016-18 © Siân Davey
from Constructed Family Portraits, 2006-08 © Jamie Diamond
from Ausencias, 2006– © Gustavo Germano
Aus der Serie Just like us, 2016-19 © Eric Gyamfi
from TRIBES, 2009 © Lucia Herrero
from Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story, 2012-13 © Lebohang Kganye
from Père et fils, 2009-16 © Grégoire Korganow
from The Christmas Tree Bucket, 2013 © Trent Parke/Magnum Photos
from Ich denke auch Familienbilder, 2014– © Linn Schröder
Artists:
Nora Bibel (Germany), Nancy Borowick (USA), Katharina Bosse (Finland), Elinor Carucci (Israel), John Clang (Singapur), Daniel W. Coburn (USA), Neil DaCosta (USA), Siân Davey (UK), Jamie Dia- mond (USA), Vincent Ferrané (France), Gustavo Germano (Ar- gentina), Eric Gyamfi (Ghana), Lucia Herrero (Spain), Lebohang Kganye (South Africa), Grégoire Korganow (France), Katharina Mayer (Germany), Dario Mitidieri (Italy), Lee-Ann Olwage (South Africa), Trent Parke (Australia), Linn Schröder (Germany), Daniel Schumann (Germany), Akihito Yoshida (Japan)
FAMILY AFFAIRS: Family in Current Photography
Edited by Ingo Taubhorn
Texts by Julia Bunnemann, David Campany, Linda Epp, Eva Illouz, Doris Lin, Dirk Luckow, Marie Meyerding, Paula Michalk, Rupert Pfab, Magnus Pölcher, Henriette Schröder, Sabine Seidel, Ingo Taubhorn, Melanie von Bismarck
Designed by Detlev Pusch
Cloth hardcover with screen print and banderole
Published by Keher Verlag https://www.kehrerverlag.com
24 x 24 cm, 304 pages, 204 color and b/w ills. English / German
ISBN 978-3-96900-029-8
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