Boris von Brauchitsch
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Book review in European Photography No 83
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| ... The majority of the selected volumes interweave image and text to form a convincing unity, whereby the texts - essays, interviews, travelogues - clearly go beyond necessary explanations of images. That said, the photo book SilberLicht (ex posé, Berlin) by Amin El Dib immediately distinguisches itself as an exception. The book delivers an almost defiantly unfashionable review of photographic qualities prevalent during the era of baryta paper. The artist takes these shimmering black-and-white surfaces and tears, folds or staggers them, arranging enlargements of photographs of bodily details to form new, abstract still-lifes. Refined an purist, the book's spiral binding, thick white paper and black cardboard cover complete this aesthetic homage to the combination of light and silver, of which the photographic avant-garde availed itself for half a century, starting in the 1920s. Boris von Brauchitsch, 2008 |
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