Lehndorff & Tr?lzsch: The Seen and the Unseen

Lehndorff & Trülzsch created innovative staged photographs of body paintings, combining painting, photography, and performance. Their book, "The Seen and the Unseen," explores gender identities and the treatment of the female body in art. Their method of reflection restricts physical alteration, creating double photography or teleplastic photography.

Format: Hardback
Length: 550 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2024
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey

Lehndorff & Trülzsch created a remarkable collection of staged photographs of body paintings during a period of intense creativity from the 1970s to the late 1980s. In their book, "The Seen and the Unseen," they approach their artistic work from a new angle by interweaving the images of their work series, facsimiled archive material, contributions by critics, and contextual explanations and reference images. The book retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body against the backdrop of history and contemporary art in the second half of the twentieth century.

One of the key aspects of their work is the method of Trülzsch/Lehndorff, which restricts their assertion from physically altering what already exists in the environment. This is an art of reflection rather than an intervention, and it could be said that the objects are examples of double photography, or teleplastic photography (sculptural photography).

Gary Indiana, in his article "Imitation and Its Double" for the Village Voice, describes their work as an art of reflection rather than an intervention. He notes that the objects are examples of double photography, or teleplastic photography (sculptural photography).

Lehndorff & Trülzsch's oeuvre of staged photographs of body paintings is a synthesis of painting, photography, and performance that emerged during a period of intense creativity from the 1970s to the late 1980s. In their book, "The Seen and the Unseen," they approach their artistic work from a new angle by interweaving the images of their work series, facsimiled archive material, contributions by critics, and contextual explanations and reference images. The book retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body against the backdrop of history and contemporary art in the second half of the twentieth century.

One of the key aspects of their work is the method of Trülzsch/Lehndorff, which restricts their assertion from physically altering what already exists in the environment. This is an art of reflection rather than an intervention, and it could be said that the objects are examples of double photography, or teleplastic photography (sculptural photography).

Gary Indiana, in his article "Imitation and Its Double" for the Village Voice, describes their work as an art of reflection rather than an intervention. He notes that the objects are examples of double photography, or teleplastic photography (sculptural photography).

Dimension: 286 x 229 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783906803869