Marc Erwin Babej

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Marc Erwin Babej (* 1970 in Frankfurt / Main ) is a German -American photographer .

life and work

Babej was born in 1970 in Frankfurt am Main as the son of a psychiatrist and a pediatrician of Jewish descent. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in History (AB), then Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.Sc). He began his career as a reporter for Forbes Magazine in New York. At the same time he wrote for the feature pages of Corriere della Sera , Die Zeit , Die Weltwoche and The Guardian .

Work

Babej's works move in the field of tension between the social sciences, mass psychology and the media. His work Mask of Perfection (2013) addressed the relationship between natural beauty and the understanding of beauty in plastic surgery. The subsequent works deal with the aftermath of historical events on the present: the fall of the Soviet Union in Chernogirls , and the Roman legacy of Tunisia in Africanae . His work Mischlinge, which has received much attention in Germany and Israel, deals with the consequences of the Nazi era on national identity in the Federal Republic of Germany.

style

Babej works exclusively with black and white photography, in which his color blindness is an advantage. Its aesthetics are based on the film of the 1930s and 40s - in particular Orson Welles , Jean Renoir , the cameraman Gregg Toland and their deep focus cinematography . Mischlinge (2015), on the other hand, addresses the aesthetics of Leni Riefenstahl .

Yesterday - Tomorrow

Babej's most recent work, Yesterday - Tomorrow: A Work in Aspective Realism (2017) translates Egyptian art, which is designed to last and last, into the present. More than 50 scientific and technical employees were involved in the work. A team of 13 Egyptologists conceived and designed the “photographic reliefs” that form the core of the work in collaboration with Babej: Christian Bayer and Oliver Gauert ( Roemer- und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim ), Laurel Bestock ( Brown University ), Roxana Flammini ( Pontifica Universidad Católica de Argentina / CONICET ), Salima Ikram and Mariam Ayad ( American University in Cairo ), Christian Loeben ( Museum August Kestner ), Juan Carlos Moreno García ( Université Paris IV-Sorbonne ), Matthias Müller ( University of Basel ) Thomas Schneider ( University of British Columbia ), Regine Schulz ( Ludwig Maximilians University Munich ) and Steve Vinson ( Indiana University ). The foreword to the book was written by Babej's mentor, Roger Ballen .

Aspectic realism

Yesterday - Tomorrow takes the complex imagery of ancient Egypt and updates it in photo-realistic media. In doing so, Babej adapts the most striking feature of ancient Egyptian art : the simultaneous representation of the human body from different perspectives, such as frontal and side views, called " aspectical ". The newly established art style is referred to by Babej as aspective realism and viewed by the participating Egyptologists as the “rebirth of Egyptian art after 2000 years, and its further development in photo-realistic media”.

Exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Erwin Babej's Mask of Perfection . In: American Photo . ( americanphotomag.com ). , November 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Marc Erwin Babej's Cinematic Exploration of Tunisian Society , September 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Using Nazi Settings and DNA Tests, Jewish Photographer Quashes 'the Fiction of German Blood' , December 29, 2014
  4. ^ Marc Erwin Babej Yesterday - Tomorrow A Work in Aspective Realism - Kehrer Verlag. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum: Yesterday - Tomorrow. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 11, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rpmuseum.de  
  6. ↑ Announcement on the mixed race exhibition ( Memento from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Profile Babejs on parisphoto.com
  8. ^ Message on the Mask of Perfection exhibition , accessed on August 13, 2015.
  9. ↑ Communication on body interventions / Mask of Perfection exhibition ( memento of the original from October 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 13, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensspuren.at
personal data
SURNAME Babej, Marc Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main