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kehrerverlag.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | Of Lions and Lambs
Benita Suchodrev
Texts by Mark Gisbourne, Matthias Harder and Benita Suchodrev
Hardcover 24 x 31 cm
368 Pages
206 Duotone Illustrations
English| German
www.kehrerverlag.com
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| | | | | | "A complex pictorial-psychological investigation into a disenchanted reality and the nature of being, reminiscent of the cinema of Federico Fellini and the black-and-white English films of 1960s’ social realism." (Mark Gisbourne, Art historian, Critic, Curator)
"Intoxicating and authentic, Suchodrev’s narratives could be a daydream-like film told through stills, as in Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story or the work of Jim Jarmusch." (Matthias Harder, Curator, Helmut Newton Foundation) | | | | | | | | | Of Lions and Lambs, 2019
© Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | | The tourist season is over, the promenade is empty and Brexit is at the door when Benita Suchodrev returns to the British coastal town of Blackpool to photograph the hidden reality behind the famous Amusement Mile. She leads us to local churches, soup kitchens, youth shelters, old age homes and impoverished neighborhoods, meets bizarre characters, underage mothers, drug-addicts, artists, and hermits. She photographs strangers on train platforms, homeless in torn rags feasting on ham sandwiches and coffee under a dark overpass, closed storefronts and deserted alleys on a rainy night. Poetic, rough and authentic, Of Lions and Lambs is a sequel to Suchodrev’s successful debut 48 Hours Blackpool (Kehrer Verlag 2018), the sequel to a story that begins where illusions end. | | | | | | | | | Of Lions and Lambs, 2019
© Benita Suchodrev | | | | | | | "By contrast with my first book, 48 Hours Blackpool, whose swift, brutally honest depictions of British tourists rushing along the amusement mile inadvertently lived up to the popular notion of Blackpool as a ‘playground for the British working class’, this book is more about Blackpool as a dying ground for those whose class does not matter. For the most part, it’s about those who live in a contemporary Western society and, for a reason that may or may not exist, seem to carry on their shoulders every conceivable physical, mental and emotional burden, including the burden of guilt for their own demise… in this context I can’t help think of lambs that are sacrificed again and again, continuously slaughtered to die many deaths and be reborn only to die again, even while living. Their children are the tenderest of lambs that are served on dinner plates following inauguration speeches. And the rest of us … well, the rest of us are either lambs who believe they are lions or lions that life turns into lambs." (Benita Suchodrev) | | | | | | | | | Of Lions and Lambs, 2019
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