German Photo Book Award 2020/21 Bronze
The photography book to mark the 100th birthday of literature’s "enfant terrible"
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Bukowski. The Shooting
By Abe Frajndlich
Charles Bukowski, the "dirty old man" of American literature whose poems and prose are closely interwoven with his life – how does one go about portraying a person like that? In 1985, the young photographer Abe Frajndlich took on this challenge. We can say this much: it was not a job that could be accomplished in one shot. The Shooting presents a photographer’s attempt to zero in on a legend.
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“That face!” Glenn Esterly exclaims in his essay “The Pock-marked Poetry of Charles Bukowski” included in this volume. Everything fascinating about this monumental author is concentrated in his “look”, as impressively demonstrated by the photographs of Abe Frajndlich, many of them previously unpublished. Portraying Bukowski in colour and black and white, he gained the writer’s confidence to the point that he was eventually invited to the wedding of Bukowski and Linda Lee Beighle. Telling the story of this meeting, the publication reproduces the various portrait series, culminating in the photographs of the wedding.
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Ein gut gearbeiteter Band.
Münchner Merkur
Wozu sich mit Bukowski beschäftigen? Vielleicht, weil das manchmal einfach lustiger ist, als sich mit dem zu beschäftigen, was andere ohnehin pflichtschuldig und mit dem gebotenen Ernst abhaken und in ähnlich lautenden Artikeln den verbliebenen Leser*innen des Kulturteils zur Kenntnis bringen (müssen).
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Text: English / German
German translation by Esther Ghionda-Breger und Carl Weissner
96 pages, 65 illustrations
25.4 × 20.3 cm, hardback
German translation by Esther Ghionda-Breger und Carl Weissner
96 pages, 65 illustrations
25.4 × 20.3 cm, hardback
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3667-8
Keywords
Photography, photojournalism, Hank, 20th century
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