Seite 2 – Fotografie und Psychiatrie

Sofia Coppola : The Virgin Suicides

For her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola commissioned British fashion photographer Corinne Day to join her on set. Renowned for her unadorned, grungy photographs of iconic models of the 1990s, Day’s representation of female beauty met its match in Coppola, whose debut marked the first of her unaffected, empathetic depictions of womanhood.
Edouard Levé : Reconstitutions / Angoisse

„Dans son travail sur le village nommé Angoisse, il donne une atmosphère particulière à des lieux banals et confronte dans ses photographies le réel le plus prosaïque à une image mentale préexistante.“
Matúš Zajac : Zlom

Marek fights for himself every day. Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day… This project is about him, me and my parents. It is a personal probe into the intimate world of a family struggling with a serious illness.
No Sovereign Author : Un Abécédaire de la Psychiatrie

Le livre Un Abécédaire de la Psychiatrie est le fruit d’une collaboration entre les artistes du duo NO SOVEREIGN AUTHOR et les patients du centre psychiatrique de jour « La Fabrique du Pré », situé à Nivelles, en Belgique.
Jean-Paul Curnier, Michel Surya (Hrsg.) : Sur David Nebreda

Dieser Textband zu Werk und Biographie von David Nebreda enthält ein Gespräch zwischen dem Künstler und Catherine Millet, sowie Texte von Gilles de Staal, Jean Arrouye, Cécile Zervudacki, Jacob Rorozinski, Christophe Domino, Francis Marmande, Paul Mathis, Claude Louis-Combet, Jean-Paul Curnier, Michel Surya und David Nebreda.
Robin Hammond : Condemned. Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis

Hammond captures both the deplorable conditions that the mentally ill endure and the overwhelming challenge that mental health workers face with limited resources and inadequate or failed systems health care systems in which the mentally ill have the lowest priority.
Claudio Edinger : Madness

„These are evocative, sensual images from South America’s largest mental hospital, Juqueri, in Sao Paolo. … Madness is an impassioned look at mental illness that neither seeks to hide the condition behind glimpses of normalcy, nor to deny the humanity of its afflicted.“
Simone Engelen : 27 Drafts

„In 2006, during a high school exchange year in the U.S., I was sexually abused by two individuals. In the years that followed, I tried to block out all memories about this experience, which led me to develop coping mechanisms such as addiction and control issues; and deeply influenced how I interact with others and…
Stefan Hartmeier (Hrsg) : Gustav Mesmer – Ikarus vom Lautertal genannt

Er fertigt unzählige Bilder, Zeichnungen, schreibt Gedichte und Texte. Sein Gesamtwerk ist ein schier unerschöpflicher Kosmos, der nun erstmals in seiner ganzen Fülle erscheint. Gustav Mesmer starb 1994 und gilt heute als herausragender Art-Brut-Künstler.
Elina Dreher : To Whoever I’ll Be

„… What does it mean to no longer find your way out of darkness? Why must my eyes scream, and my mouth cry? This photobook engages deeply with these questions, guiding a soul longing healing process as a present to whoever I‘ll be.“
Francesca Woodman : Portrait of a Reputation

„Never-before-published work by an iconic woman artist from the very start of her career.“
Mafalda Rakoš : All in this together

Mafalda Rakoš (AT) questions the impossibility of captivating someone else’s inner world through photography. But also how portraying others relates to discourses around representation, especially in anthropological research. What bigger picture is revealed by looking at the state of our mental health in a capitalist society?