
Beyond Starlight
- Publisher
- DCV Books
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-96912-001-9
- Specifications
- Clothbound hardcover in slipcase
20 x 26.5 cm
160 pages
150 illustrations
German / English
Design by Alexander Münch
For more than a decade Petra Arnold has shadowed the Zirkus Starlight troupe and the Fischers, a family of performers, taking analogue photographs, mostly black and white, of their life behind the scenes. When she began, the Fischers were a large family; over time the company has had to downsize in a difficult business climate where few people can make a living as circus artists. Her pictures peek behind the curtain for a study of an existence between circus family and family circus, mostly outside the limelight: portraits and unstaged scenes that document contemporary history and the steady decline of circus culture.