Nina Kirste - Barragán portraits

Nina Kirste - Barragán portraitsSelf published 2024 The book presents 58 colour photographs of buildings by the Mexican Pritzker Prize winner Luis Barragan, taken by the German photographer and architect Nina Kirste. The series of photographs is complemented by texts from German and Mexican authors. These include a poem written especially for this publication by Mexican poet Kary Cerda, an essay by Juan Jose Arreola Prize winner Pablo Salazar, an introduction by the gallery owners

do you know why we've gathered here today

archival photographs

an ongoing suite of artists books that utilizes traditional notions of category to create different points of view

These aren’t any decisive moments

and involves a process which constantly expands and contradicts the artist's oeuvre through re-edits of the work to create new views through the material

But what might seem on the surface political is made intensely personal through Konowiecki’s purposeful reliance on emotional connections in the pictures rather than specific relationships of place or subject

and Garry Winogrand were still relatively unknown

followed by a smile and silence

Leidejas 2020

just as it happens for life in the woods: Man is also an animal and as such he also depends on nature

Organized chronologically

german/english – numbered – open book spine