{"product_id":"timm-rautert-anfangbeginnings-by-timm-rautert-9783958295285","title":"Timm Rautert: Anfang\/Beginnings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2007, Timm Rautert, then professor of photography at Leipzig's Academy of Fine Arts, began photographing his students with their partners and young children among the designer furniture, second-hand treasures and kids' toys of their apartments. So began a decade-long documentary experiment that shows German families in their revealing home environments and their beginnings as a family unit, with all its complex social connotations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimm Rautert: Anfang\/Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e consists of 40 triptychs, one of each family. At the center is the mother\/father\/child group; to the left and right the living spaces seem to fold outwards, like a winged altarpiece. Rautert thus questions the idea of the \"holy family\" today through the prism of a specific generation's middle class. His sitters gaze towards us (the children do their best), with varying degrees of formality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRautert's technical approach is appropriately pared back, creating a neutral stage on which his subjects pose and helping him to seize, in his words, \"that selfsame moment to look at that which I perhaps did not immediately grasp.\" A photographer must take part, must understand; that's the secret to a successful portrait, even if that understanding sometimes does not dawn until later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimm Rautert: Anfang\/Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471855829228,"sku":"9783958295285","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958295285-timm-rautert-anfang-beginnings.jpg?v=1775260468","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/timm-rautert-anfangbeginnings-by-timm-rautert-9783958295285","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}