Barbara Porbst - Subjective Evidence

With the twelve-part exposure #1 (2000), for which she photographed herself from twelve different perspectives simultaneously as she ran across a rooftop in Manhattan Barbara Probst be-gan a long-term photo project that continues to this day. The latest two-part exposure #189 is an experiment with a completely unstaged situation in public space. In between, she has worked with diverse themes, such as still life, street, nude, fashion, interior and portrait photography. In a constantly changing, accelerating, and diversifying multimedial world, in which the call for media competence is increasingly louder, her pictures and series sharpen the viewer's awareness that there are many perspectives, realities and points of view-in this respect they could hardly be more contemporary and relevant. The three authors of the publication discuss the topicality and impact of the themes her pictures address. This volume is published in conjunction with a major retrospective (Lucerne, Hanover, Cincinnati) and is the first to feature a catalog raisonné of all 189 exposures produced to date, as well as an overview of her work from recent years and views of the installations in her most important past exhibitions.