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- Mona Kuhn's lyrical and formally daring portrait of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles, supplemented with letters, blueprints and moreIn Kings Road, Californian photographer Mona Kuhn (born 1969) reconsiders the realms of time and space within the architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles.
- 200 Pages
- Photography, Individual Photographers
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Mona Kuhn's lyrical and formally daring portrait of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles, supplemented with letters, blueprints and more
In Kings Road, Californian photographer Mona Kuhn (born 1969) reconsiders the realms of time and space within the architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and 1930s.
For this project Kuhn collaborated with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara, and gained access to Schindler's private archives including blueprints, letters and notes. Alongside reproducing some of these for the first time in this book, Kuhn reinterprets the dichotomy between memory and record in a series of color photos, and solarized gelatin silver prints, a technique favored by the surrealists. The enigmatic subject of her solarized pictures is a fictional, ethereal figure inspired by a letter from Schindler to a mysterious woman. Kuhn's impressionistic photos render this female presence physical, even as it seems to be dematerializing: fleeting images that question the very nature of photography as record.Review Quotes
Kuhn fuses nature and architecture together with a ghost-like appearance from an unnamed woman. Kuhn's ability to merge fiction with reality is flawless--Emily Capone "Musee"
Pairing moody atmospheric photographs of the house that represent Schindler with solarised portraits of longtime model Viva, Kuhn's work evokes the mystical beauty of true love.--Sara Rosen "AnOther"
Dimensions (Overall): 12.4 Inches (H) x 9.8 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 3.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 200
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: Individual Photographers
Publisher: Steidl
Theme: Monographs
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 2022
TCIN: 1006604729
UPC: 9783958297555
Item Number (DPCI): 247-34-6570
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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