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Photography, like any art form, is a quest for something. For oneself? For truth?
A quest for provocation?
Twenty-five years ago, the liberated post-'68 generation could enjoy many pleasures without too much fear of unemployment, not yet of AIDS, and less than today of ideological and religious extremism.
In the 1980s, the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall and a Europe on the move were about to break down some borders—those archaic barriers that had been erected between peoples… We lived in the hope of a better world. A freer one.
My thirst for freedom, combined with a search for identity, led me to have my friends and acquaintances pose completely naked, free from any aesthetic considerations. *
* “Carnet d’Adresses” (published by DTV), a collection of nude portraits of both famous and unknown subjects, proclaimed the truth of the gaze, without inhibition or complacency.
At a time when European entente is struggling to survive, other threats - climatic or conflict-related - are darkening the horizon.
Added to this is the return of the narrow morality of our elders.
My ever-vital quest for truth leads me to risk shock by showing this personal, unbridled but assumed work, the uncompromising work of my early years as a photographer.
Arnaud Baumann, Paris 2024
Photography Book -Arnaud Baumann- Language: French
Author(s): Arnaud BaumannPublisher: Le Dernier Terrain VagueLanguage: FrenchFormat: Large, + de 1kg
Author(s) : Arnaud Baumann
Publisher: Le Dernier Terrain Vague
Language: French
Size: Large, over 1kg
1983
Photography, like any art form, is a quest for something. For oneself? For truth?
A quest for provocation?
Twenty-five years ago, the liberated post-'68 generation could enjoy many pleasures without too much fear of unemployment, not yet of AIDS, and less than today of ideological and religious extremism.
In the 1980s, the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall and a Europe on the move were about to break down some borders—those archaic barriers that had been erected between peoples… We lived in the hope of a better world. A freer one.
My thirst for freedom, combined with a search for identity, led me to have my friends and acquaintances pose completely naked, free from any aesthetic considerations. *
* “Carnet d’Adresses” (published by DTV), a collection of nude portraits of both famous and unknown subjects, proclaimed the truth of the gaze, without inhibition or complacency.
At a time when European entente is struggling to survive, other threats - climatic or conflict-related - are darkening the horizon.
Added to this is the return of the narrow morality of our elders.
My ever-vital quest for truth leads me to risk shock by showing this personal, unbridled but assumed work, the uncompromising work of my early years as a photographer.
Arnaud Baumann, Paris 2024
Photography Book -Arnaud Baumann- Language: French
Author(s): Arnaud BaumannPublisher: Le Dernier Terrain VagueLanguage: FrenchFormat: Large, + de 1kg
Author(s) : Arnaud Baumann
Publisher: Le Dernier Terrain Vague
Language: French
Size: Large, over 1kg
1983
