{"product_id":"17818-frank-gaudlitz","title":"Frank Gaudlitz","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style='FONT-FAMILY: \"TheSansOsF Plain\",\"sans-serif\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'\u003eDuring his photo project \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eSonnenstraße, \u003c\/I\u003eduring which Frank Gaudlitz (*1958 in Vetschau) followed the tracks of Alexander von Humboldt over the Andes in 2010, he time and again encountered transsexuals—strong, proud women who live in male bodies. Marginalized by society, exposed to discrimination and physical violence on a daily basis, it requires the courage of the Amazons to publically admit to their choice of gender identity. \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style='FONT-FAMILY: \"TheSansOsF Plain\",\"sans-serif\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'\u003eBetween 2013 and 2015, Gaudlitz lived among them for several months. In his portraits he consistently succeeds in capturing the fragility and vulnerability that slumbers even underneath thickly applied makeup. Highly stylized, almost painterly still life arrangements support the melancholy of this pictorial narrative and come across as metaphors of beauty and impermanence, of paradise and torture. After having been presented in numerous exhibitions, the images are now being published in this sophisticated volume of photographs. \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style='FONT-FAMILY: \"TheSansOsF Plain\",\"sans-serif\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US'\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"TheSansOsF Plain\",\"sans-serif\"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA'\u003eExhibition: Galerie Haus Schlangeneck, Euskirchen, \u003cFONT size=3\u003e24.4.–21.5.2016\u003c\/FONT\u003e \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44873325773064,"sku":"9783775740753","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775740753_83b0c77f-515e-4e51-927c-8d1b6c9ec75b.jpg?v=1744064582","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17818-frank-gaudlitz","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}