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Mona Kuhn: Kings Road
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary photography, architectural history, avant-garde art, and those fascinated by the interplay of memory and visual storytelling.
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In Kings Road Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and '30s.
For this project, Kuhn collaborated with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara and gained access to Schindler's private archives, including blueprints, letters, and notes. Alongside reproducing some of these for the first time in this book, Kuhn reinterprets the dichotomy between memory and record in a series of colour photos and solarised gelatin silver prints, a technique favoured by the Surrealists.
The enigmatic subject of her solarised pictures is a fictional, ethereal figure inspired by a letter from Schindler to a mysterious woman. Kuhn's impressionistic photos render this female presence physical, even as it seems to be dematerialising: fleeting images that question the very nature of photography as record.
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Critics praise Kuhn's seamless fusion of nature and architecture with a ghost-like figure that merges fiction and reality flawlessly. Emily Capone of Musee highlights her skill in this blend, while Sara Rosen of AnOther commends the moody, atmospheric photographs and the mystical beauty evoked by the solarised portraits, underscoring the work's emotional depth.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783958297555
Publisher: Steidl Publishers
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 January 2022
Country: Germany
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Illustration: 100 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Designed by Holger Feroudj
- Text by Silvia Perea
- Text by David Dorenbaum
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 245.0mm
Height: 310.0mm
Weight: 1300g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Born in São Paulo in 1969 and today based in Los Angeles, Mona Kuhn is best known for her large-scale dreamlike photographs of the human form. Her work often references classical themes and is distinguished by the close relationships she develops with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable naturalness and intimacy, of people naked yet comfortable in their own skin. Kuhn's photographs are held in collections such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her books with Steidl include Photographs (2004), Evidence (2007), Native (2009), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014) and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018).
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