Holding the Camera Aman Iman Publishing 15 x 20 cm

15 x 20 cm

By the early 1990s

and now Sonnhild Kestler

imbued with a previously unseen wildness

The catalogue for an exhibition of work by the late American portraitist Alice Neel at Xavier Hufkens

Holding the Camera Aman Iman Publishing 15 x 20 cm'How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes one eyed into the world. How one hides it in stockings, behind the back, and how one lets it peep out from behind the corner of a building, as though it were a detective. Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analogue photography. Like the dinosaurs, supposedly the victims of a violent meteorite