Frey, Mary. Real
life dramas. (Essay by Tim Carpenter). First edition. Berlin, Peperoni
Books (2018). Quer-4°. 124 S., [2] Bl. mit 58 Farbtafeln. Farbig
illustr. OPbd.
Erste Ausgabe. – Von M. Frey auf dem
Vortitel signiert. – Die Aufnahmen entstanden 1984 bis 1987. – „These
photographs, which appear to be documentary, are entirely preconceived
and set-up. Their appearance is meant to hover somewhere between reality
and soap opera in order to question the „truth“ of the camera’s vision.
The texts, which are photographically generated and printed in the
white space of the images, appropriate the language of popular dime
store fiction and are oftentimes overblown or irrelevant. Their function
is never quite clear and is chiefly meant to be a fulcrum around which
to operate a series of ideas. – Mary Frey is a photographer who
currently lives and works in western Massachusetts. The artist earned
her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1979 and subsequently
taught photography at the Hartford Art School, retiring from the
undergraduate program in the Spring of 2015“ (Ben Frey). – Tadellos.
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