PHOTO TIBET 1993-1995 - Gao Bo
This series occupies a special place in Gao Bo's work, closer to a "traditional" photographic practice than to the monumental installations to which he has devoted himself in recent years. However, the same willingness to experiment and the same desire to go back to the first shots to extract the purest truth are evident. Gao Bo underlines the limits of language, and in so doing attempts to overcome the incommunicability of his experience in Tibet, asserting in his work, in the words of philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien, that "beauty is a wound".
Published by Editions CD, 1996, numbered copy (no. 120)
Cloth hardcover, 25 cm x 33 cm, 76 pages
ISBN 2 9506985-1-4
This series occupies a special place in Gao Bo's work, closer to a "traditional" photographic practice than to the monumental installations to which he has devoted himself in recent years. However, the same willingness to experiment and the same desire to go back to the first shots to extract the purest truth are evident. Gao Bo underlines the limits of language, and in so doing attempts to overcome the incommunicability of his experience in Tibet, asserting in his work, in the words of philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien, that "beauty is a wound".
Published by Editions CD, 1996, numbered copy (no. 120)
Cloth hardcover, 25 cm x 33 cm, 76 pages
ISBN 2 9506985-1-4
This series occupies a special place in Gao Bo's work, closer to a "traditional" photographic practice than to the monumental installations to which he has devoted himself in recent years. However, the same willingness to experiment and the same desire to go back to the first shots to extract the purest truth are evident. Gao Bo underlines the limits of language, and in so doing attempts to overcome the incommunicability of his experience in Tibet, asserting in his work, in the words of philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien, that "beauty is a wound".
Published by Editions CD, 1996, numbered copy (no. 120)
Cloth hardcover, 25 cm x 33 cm, 76 pages
ISBN 2 9506985-1-4
