Acta Est Lise Sarfati Lise Sarfati: Acta Est — Ivorypress

Lise Sarfati: Acta Est — Ivorypress。出版社 ‏ : ‎ Phaidon Press (2000/8/29) 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2000/8/29 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語 ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 104ページ ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714839108 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714839103 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 20.96 x 1.91 x 30.48 cm 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 ... ...