Kunst und Leben. Ein Roman
- Publisher
- Fotohof
- Year
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9783901756153
- Specifications
- Hardcover
Cloth
Dust jacket
24 x 16.5 cm
128 pages
221 colour images
28 b/w images
Language: English, French, German
Text by Gerald Matt
"The whole world is a picture", writes Austrian photographer Paul Albert Leitner in the first line of this "novel" in photographs. A remarkable grab bag of images - from bucolic nature to a discarded Christmas tree, construction debris to the creamy thighs of a female nude, slick fashion shots to gritty urban scenes - come together to describe the artist’s world.Gerald Matt writes: "An old lady observes. A monkey copulates. They are happy in Berlin ... In Paris they meet Santa Claus who gives them his garter belt. The Daiquiri tastes like a glacier and they cite Hemingway in Havana."