Peter Miller: 36 Exposures Antje Stahl 9783775743617

As a child, Peter Miller dabbled in magic. In his artistic work today, he immerses himself in the world of illusion by employing the technological universe of film and photography. He experiments with the camera, the negative, the screen, and the projector, light, and chemicals to produce photograms, luminograms, Polaroids, and photo collages. In his collage Set, for example, the artist arranges around ten thousand photographs of sunsets to create a single quasi-cinematic sequence. For the 35mm film Projector Obscura, with the help of a projector installed in various theaters, he recorded their auditoriums. By wrapping an old chandelier with photo paper, he staged the theaters' self-portraits. This monograph, published on the occasion of Miller's participation at the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2017, brings together Miller's past creative work and presents the oeuvre of this extraordinary artist.

Camera, light, action: Peter Miller's universe of film and photography

About the Author
PETER MILLER (*1978) studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives in Essen and Paris. His photo and film installations have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, SFMOMA, the New Museum, New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Berlinale, the Venice Biennale and many other renowned institutions and film festivals. He teaches at Folkwang University Essen as a professor of photography and time-based media.


Book Information
ISBN 9783775743617
Author Antje Stahl
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Hatje Cantz
Publisher Hatje Cantz