Radical Eye: The Photography of Miron Zownir
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3931126137 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | German, English |
DESCRIPTION:
Zownir, a modern day Weegee, taking social photography to new limits, creating images that will haunt the reader well after the book is closed.. With his black and white photos Miron Zownir shows us a stripped and stark state of humanity that has rarely been seen. The book with the telling name Radical Eye presents twenty years of roaming through the suburban underbelly
A Customer said Disturbing, Haunting, Overall a Brilliant Book. Miron Zownir photographs those whose lives have already ended while their bodies continue to live. Lost souls desperately searching for love and meaning in the urban decay of Berlin, New York and Moskau are captured in the constant glow of the photographers twilight. Clearly not a book for the young, or the timid. Though never explicitly offensive, Miron Zownir photographs with an unblinking eye, where most of us turn our heads and wince. The picture of the stumbling fat man brings me near to tea. Radical pictures for radical eyes Miron Zownir's odyssé into the darker sides of humanity is extremely intrigueing. He shows us a world that we often prefer to believe does not exist. From New York and Berlin in the early eighties to the purgatory of post-communist Eastern Europe. Homeless people, drug abusers, handicapped people, transexuals, cruising homosexuals and prostitutes (and their activities) are his subject. In stark black and white photographs, with no info except date and location, he tells the story of the ma
"The images are raw, often obscene and socking beyond anything Benetton or Diesel would dare put in their ads." -- Creativity 3/98