• Emanuel Raab Menschenbilder
  • Emanuel Raab Menschenbilder
  • Emanuel Raab Menschenbilder
  • Emanuel Raab Menschenbilder
  • Emanuel Raab Menschenbilder

Emanuel Raab Menschenbilder

Photographer Emanuel Raab shows people of various ethnic and social origins against a plain black background. The full-length portraits, cropped from their original contexts, are printed in larger-than-life format as posters or banners and placed in urban areas, thus attracting maximum attention. Posture, gestures and facial expressions, clothes, and accessories allow the portraits to be subjected to a phenomenological analysis – while their origin, meaning, and purpose nonetheless remain ambiguous. The viewer's perception fluctuates between recognition and perplexity, because no clear borderlines are drawn here between the different media functions of the photographic image. This book documents and comments on the works and the places they have been exhibited over the past six years. It is being published to accompany an installation on the grounds of Zeche Zollverein in Essen in January 2015. Emanuel Raab is a professor of photography and image media at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad (including at the MARTa Museum in Herford, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt). His last publication, Winterwald (Kehrer 2012), was nominated for the German Photobook Award in 2013.

Hardcover 24 x 32 cm 96 pages 74 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-593-2 2014

Artist:

Emanuel Raab

Texts:

Thomas Thiel, et al., Friederike Fast, Enno Kaufhold, Fabian Lasarzik, Celina Lunsford

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Exhibitions

Zeche Zollverein Essen
25.01. – 22.02.2015

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