Photographing Art

Photographing Art presents a selection of photographs taken by the Mexican-German photographer between 1974 and 2018. It is an unmissable testimony of the world of contemporary art, highlighting emotions, relationships, moments of joy and hard work, encounters, connections, and the sense of being part of a community, all contrasted with an artist's creative solitude. These are the contents and themes emerging from the pages of this book, which stands as a testimony to its time, with its artistic expressions and everchanging trends. Photo-moments often overlooked by news, media, art catalogues, and the history of art are immortalised by a close observer of the evolutions in contemporary research. This is thanks in part to his wife, the curator Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg, who can be credited with some significant moments of international art. With his camera, Egon witnessed events in the art world not from an institutional perspective, capturing not just the facade, but immortalising the spirit that made art and artists thrive. Attentive to every idea, detail, or movement, every anticipated or unexpected moment, Franz Egon von Fürstenberg's camera seized the instant, capturing the fleeting moment when a person feels free and natural, not posed as a celebrity. The pictures in the book depict several artists, many of whom are among the most interesting personalities of our time, such as Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Chen Zhen, and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Born in 1939 in Berlin, Franz Egon von Fürstenberg worked as an assistant to designer Pierre Cardin in Paris and then to photographer Alain de Ferron in Geneva, where he met and married his lifelong companion Adelina Cüberyan. Over the years, he collaborated with many artists and several art spaces around the world. His photos have been published in magazines, papers, and art catalogues. His archives are a source of invaluable memories, helping us understand the origins of those encounters, exhibitions, connections, and developments that have unfolded throughout the generations over the course of four decades, contributing to our present contemporary art world.