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GoSee loves ...FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE by Jessica Backhaus – pausing for a little moment, captured in intensively colored snapshots during the photographer’s visits to Chile
PHOTOGRAPHY · 05.02.2020

GoSee loves ...FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE by Jessica Backhaus – pausing for a little moment, captured in intensively colored snapshots during the photographer’s visits to Chile

A new book by Jessica Backhaus presents snapshots from her visits to Chile over the last seven years. ‘Far Away But Close’ was published by Another Place Press as a book full of stories that gradually unfold for the beholder.

Far away but close showcases work made by Jessica Backhaus during many visits to Chile over the last seven years. “Presence, image, and suggestion: art’s sacred trinity is embodied with such generous concentration in these images by Jessica Backhaus, who we as Chileans should thank for making so exquisitely visible, what we are too distracted to notice. The power of the color that portrays and crowns the subject, provokes the sensation that we are seeing something we see every day but haven’t actually seen before.” we learn from the introduction by Antonio Skármeta.

Author: Antonio Skármeta, Artist: Jessica Backhaus

Publisher: Another Place Press/ Scottish Highlands

Design: Iain Sarjeant, Jessica Backhaus

Softcover, 24 x 19cm, 72 pages, 52 color and b&w ills., English/Spanish 2019

Credits

Photographer
Jessica Backhaus
PUBLISHING HOUSE
Another Place Press

About Jessica Backhaus

Jessica Backhaus is represented by Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, Galerie Anja Knoess in Cologne, Petra Becker/ International Art Bridge in Frankfurt.

Jessica Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany in 1970 and grew up in an artistic family. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later studied photography and visual communications. Here she met Gisele Freund in 1992, who became her mentor. In 1995 her passion for photography drew her to New York, where she assisted photographers, pursued her own projects and lived until 2009. Jessica Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. To date, eight publications to her name; Jesus and the Cherries, 2005, What Still Remains, 2008, One Day in November, 2008, I Wanted to See the World, 2010, ONE DAY- 10 photographers, 2010, Once, still and forever, 2012 and Six degrees of freedom, 2015 and A TRILOGY, 2017, all published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin. Her photographs are in many prominent art collections including Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany, ING Art Collection, Belgium, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Margulies Collection, Miami, USA. Jessica Backhaus is represented by Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin, Galerie Anja Knoess in Cologne, Petra Becker/ International Art Bridge in Frankfurt, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia, MiCamera Gallery in Milan, Carlos Carvalho ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA in Lisbon and Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery in Amsterdam.

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