Description:
Roni Horn presents the culmination of the artist’s long-running photographic series of taxidermied Icelandic wildfowl. Photographed at close range against white backgrounds (as though obeying the conventional format of studio portraiture) the birds are viewed from behind, their unique physiognomies and markings resulting in inscrutable shapes and patterns on the photographs’ surfaces. Horn’s photographs, like the stuffed birds represented, are quizzical. These are terse, slippery images in which clear-sighted, accurate detail only serves to underline the limited knowledge offered up by appearances.
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Steidl/Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 28 x 30.5 cm
Pages: 32
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-3-86521-669-4
Description:
Roni Horn presents the culmination of the artist’s long-running photographic series of taxidermied Icelandic wildfowl. Photographed at close range against white backgrounds (as though obeying the conventional format of studio portraiture) the birds are viewed from behind, their unique physiognomies and markings resulting in inscrutable shapes and patterns on the photographs’ surfaces. Horn’s photographs, like the stuffed birds represented, are quizzical. These are terse, slippery images in which clear-sighted, accurate detail only serves to underline the limited knowledge offered up by appearances.
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Steidl/Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 28 x 30.5 cm
Pages: 32
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-3-86521-669-4