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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Sébastien Lifshitz – Amateur
| Publisher | Steidl |
| Year | 2016 |
| Cover | Cloth in slipcase with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-3-86930-739-8 |
| Pages | 616 |
| Weight | 2720 g |
| More | |
| Article ID | art-14575 |
"Amateur" consists of four volumes and unites a vast collection of amateur photographs assembled by filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz over the last twenty years. Found on flea markets all over the world and in photo galleries or on the internet, they are divided into four themes: the uncanny, empty places, blurs and beachsides. Each volume revolves around one of those recurring themes, playing with the different frames, the changes of light, movement and subject in order to create an immense poetic collage.
Sébastien Lifshitz was born in Paris in 1968. After studying art history, he began working in the world of contemporary art in 1990, assisting curator Bernard Blistène at the Centre Pompidou, and photographer Suzanne Lafont. In 1994, he turned to filmmaking with equal attention to fiction and documentary. His films received numerous awards such as the Prix Jean Vigo and the Kodak Award, twice the Berlin Film Festival’s Teddy, and the Cesar 2013 for his last feature “The Invisibles.” Sébastien Lifshitz has just finished the documentary film “Bambi” which was selected at the Berlinale 2013.
