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In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography

by Jean De Loisy

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Anselm Kiefer’s photographic practice in focus

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Anselm Kiefer’s photographic practice in focus

Known primarily for monumental paintings and installations, Anselm Kiefer is presented here through a less familiar but central part of his work: photography. Featuring more than 130 works, the volume traces how photographs function across his career as both an artistic practice and a source for other images. It places that work alongside Kiefer’s sustained engagement with postwar identity, history, collective memory, loss, myth, and literature. The book offers a concentrated view of photography’s role in an oeuvre often associated with large-scale forms and historically charged imagery.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Anselm Kiefer’s work beyond painting and installation
  • Photography-monograph collectors
  • Those exploring art concerned with memory, history, myth, and postwar identity

Themes

Photography and image-makingHistory and collective memoryPostwar identityMyth and literatureLoss and shared experience

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Book overview

Known for his monumental painting and installations, the internationally celebrated artist Anselm Kiefer's works are marked by a constant questioning of history and collective memory. Born in Germany two months before the Nazi capitulation in 1945, Kiefer's reflections on postwar identity, loss, and shared experience, nourished by myths and literature, create an unparalleled breadth of imagery.

The use of photography as both practice and source material is a little-known aspect of Kiefer's art that has played a central role throughout his career. In the Beginning presents over one hundred and thirty works charting the artist's relationship with photography and his investigations into what images reveal.

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