The Last Year Of Childhood
Ute Behrend
PowerShovel, Ltd.
English, Japanese
Softcover
128 pages
170 x 250 mm
2011
ISBN 9784434157882
The Last Year of Childhood, the new photo book by Cologne-based artist Ute Behrend, tells of the transition between childhood and adulthood. It brings together images from that mysterious realm between carelessness and strangeness, and is also the product of a Japanese-German collaboration.
The people observed thus in their “narratives” move through time and space. But there is also a third movement: that of the narrative images themselves. Time and again they suggest new possibilities for thinking about perception, contact, solitude and community, intimacy and masking. They pull in a new level of responses to the people and their environment: they reflect that our consciousness itself, whether that of a child or an adult, is little more than a rather inaccurate camera that we always have to carry around with us. Ute Behrend presents not only a dreamy story about the loss of childhood, but also a hyper-alert essay on photography itself.
(Source: https://www.utebehrend.de/the-last-year-of-childhood-en.html)
About the Artist
Ute Behrend is a German artist, publisher, lecturer and editor, based in Cologne, Germany. She is co-founder of BUMMBUMM BOOKS and member of the German Photography Academy (DFA) and the DGPH. Behrend’s photographs and video installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many public collections. After studying Photography, she published her first Book “Girls some Boys and Other Cookies”, with Scalo Publishers 1996 in Zürich.
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(Source: https://www.utebehrend.de/biography.html)
About the Publisher
PowerShovel is a Japanese publisher specialising in photobooks.
https://www.powershovel.co.jp/
