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Fotografias

Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Fotografias

Photographs: Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Publisher: Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo

96 pages

Year: 2006

Price: 30 €

Comments: Softcover,119 x 169 mm. First edition, 2006. No text, black & white photographs. In very good condition other than little wear and traces of rubbing at the spine.

Long before Peter Fischli and David Weiss made Fotografias, Nancy Spector had noted that the two liked to "undermine conventional distinctions between high and low art." This collection of underexposed black-and-white images does exactly that, recreating low-end figurative paintings as muddy, dark, snapshots and minting them anew as fine art. Subjects include landscapes and historical scenes, animal and mythological beings, and, yes, female figures.