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Alexander von Reiswitz. Catching Strangers
The Family Constellation Project
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Edited by: Nadine Barth
Designed by: Julia Wagner, grafikanstalt
Artist: Alexander von Reiswitz
Texts by: Nadine Barth, Alexander von Reiswitz, Florian Koch, Bernhard Kleeberg, Matthias Altenburg, Zsuzsa Bank, Marcel Beyer, Britta Boerdner, John Burnside, Ulrike Draesner, Nadja Einzmann, Marjana Gaponenko, Lena Gorelik, Anna Katharina Hahn, Danielle Hoffelt, Felicitas Hoppe, Verena Jütte, Ulla Lenze, Mariana Leky, Nicol Ljubic, Muepu Muamba, Ulli Nois, Angelika Overath, Rosa Ribas, Nis-Momme Stockmann, Christian Stahlhut, Vincenzo Todisco
Englisch, Deutsch
April 2025, 224 Pages
Hardcover
310mm x
270mm
ISBN:978-3-7757-5946-5
Fascinating interpretation of the topic "family"
This book combines photography and literature in a unique project. Over a period of fifteen years, photographer Alexander von Reiswitz captured randomly selected people, who happened to be in the same place at the same time, as fictional families in staged family portraits. These encounters, photographed across various countries and cultures on four continents, inspired new fictional narratives. Renowned authors were invited to create stories based on the photographs, inventing imaginary familial relationships and destinies for the portrayed individuals. At the heart of the project is the role of coincidence, which determines so much, after all—not least what we call the right moment, the instant that in photography produces remarkable snapshots, and in life brings people together or causes them to just miss each other.
Alexander von Reiswitz (*1965 in Málaga) lives and works as a photographer and architect in Berlin. His projects featuring “studio animal portraits,” such as Zoogestalten and Animal Stars, have been exhibited in numerous shows worldwide.
Alexander von Reiswitz (*1965 in Málaga) lives and works as a photographer and architect in Berlin. His projects featuring “studio animal portraits,” such as Zoogestalten and Animal Stars, have been exhibited in numerous shows worldwide.
»Verblüffend, was dabei herauskommt.«
Guido Pauling
NDR Kultur
»Mehr als zwanzig, teils prominente Schriftsteller haben für den Bildband „Catching Strangers" in wunderbar amüsanten, überraschenden, nachdenklichen oder tragischen Kurzgeschichten ihre Antworten auf diese Fragen gegeben und verankern damit die erfundenen Familien durch eine weitere Ebene von Fiktion in unserer Erinnerung.«
Freddy Langer
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Catching Strangers ist ein großartiger Bildband, der fotografisch und literarisch frischen Wind in althergebrachte Familienkonzepte bringt.«
Larissa Siebicke, autorenbuchhandlung marx & co, Frankfurt
kommbuch.com
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