Background information
"Blow Up: a multifaceted commentary on the world in media. The voyeurism of the camera: Vanessa Redgrave, Veruschka, and Jane Birken in Swinging London (...)'Blow Up', the 1966 cult film, can also be regarded as an excursion in photography. On a futile search for evidence of a crime he thought he has seen, Thomas, a fashion photographer, enlarges his pictures, pushing the envelope of the medium’s boundaries. Michelangelo ANTONIONI's milestone in film history revolves around the issue of how much truth exists in perception, inquires into the ways that media reproductions can be manipulated.
Content
This catalog volume, 'Blow-Up. Antonionis Classic Film and Photography' accompanied exhibitions in Vienna (Albertina); 'Winterthur' (Fotomuseum) as well as 'C/O Berlin'. It examines 'Blow Up' from a photographic perspective, investigating in detail the photographic and art-historical stances presented in the film as well as the genres is represents. The stylistic devices discussed range from social reportage, fashion photography, and Pop Art to abstract photography - and how, incidentally, Michelangelo Antonioni discovers soft focus as an artistic device." (© Hatje Cantz, 2014)
About the Italian film maker, Michelangelo ANTONIONI
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Philippe Garner, Roland Fischer-Briand, Gabriele Jutz, Thomas Seelig, Astrid Mahler, Anna Hanreich
- Book design
- Manuel RADDE
- Format
- Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 23,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm., 280 S., 1020 Farb- & S/W-Aufn. deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!