- Hardcover: 104 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd (1 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714839108
- ISBN-13: 978-0714839103
- Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 20.5 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,506,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is the first book by the emerging photographer-artist Lise Sarfati. Composed of images made during extended visits to Russia during the 1990s. It is neither travelogue nor photojournalistic essay. Rather, Sarfati uses descriptions of the details of the Russian environments which fascinate her to create a visual drama - a personal theatre of dysfunction and deterioration, of change and beauty. The title - literally "it (feminine) is over" from the Latin phrase "Acta Est Fabula" meaning "the play is over" - signals her insistence that the work not be read as journalism but as a work of theatrical imagination. She builds a disturbing Tarkovsky-esque world out of concrete historical fragments - for example the architecture and factories of Norilsk, a town in arctic Siberia built and occupied by political convicts - and peoples it with lost characters - young transvestites and teenage runaways interned in "re-education" camps. Why results is a body of beautiful, engaging and disturbing photographs which are both a historical record of Russia at the end of an era, and the poetry of a visual artist conjuring her own world.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Visual tension from an unknown universe
6 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
Russia images made by Lise Sarfati in the 90'. Dislocated and strange space and time that should belong to an unknown universe. The ruins like broken structures depicted 'as is' via certain perspective, is really attractive. Places like contention camp and work camp for offenders, psychiatric institute, bathroom, the eyes of prisoners & transsexuals etc further increase the mysterous tension in your visual interpretation.
The cover photo is a masterpiece. Imagine, the room inside Moscow psychiatric institute is shown as a performace like theatre setting.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Detention Camp for Young Male Offenders
2 Nov 2000
Format:Hardcover
A dark and intensely disturbing exhibition. Luminous photography, giving a fascinating representation of a vague, mysterious world. I finger through this book with fever: Sarfati gives the imagination powerful imagery, a feast of the unknown. To be enjoyed slowly and carefully. Highly recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Requested by our Son
8 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Book was requested by our Son, to be used in his work. Was sent as a present. Book was in good condition, and I am pleased with our purchase.
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