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02772aam a22004097i 4500 001 5FE982E2F69E11E78A00251D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180111010238 008 151218s2015 gw a 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2016418514 020 $a 3954761130 020 $a 9783954761135 035 $a (OCoLC)933780967 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d JPG $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 0 $a ger $a ger $h ger 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a TR656.5 $b .L5415 2015 082 04 $a 779/.53092 $2 23 130 0 $a Life (Distanz Verlag) 245 10 $a Life / $c Vera Mercer ; Herausgeber, Matthias Harder. 264 1 $a Berlin : $b Distanz Verlag, $c [2015] 300 $a 95 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 27 x 31 cm 546 $a In English and German. 500 $a Includes essays: Stillleben: neue Wege zu einem alten Medium = Still life: new paths to an old medium / Britta E. Buhlmann -- Anmut und grazie, im Angesicht des Todes = Grace and grandeur in the face of death / Matthias Harder. 520 8 $a In 2006, Vera Mercer (b. Berlin, 1936; lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska, and Paris) started taking photographs of ravishing still lifes with sumptuous flower arrangements, freshly shot game, and skulls. She occasionally also integrates friends into these theatrical productions, in a nod to her past as a portrait photographer: during her marriage to Daniel Spoerri in Paris, she captured artists in their studios as well as strangers in the city's cafeÌs. This book presents Mercer's most recent creations: affecting and uncompromising tableaux vivants whose composition and palette are without equal. In an interview in 2014, the artist said: "Life and death are two magnificent things. I wish my photographs would convey that even more strongly" Her still lifes are the realization of a lifelong dream. With flowers in full bloom, ripe fruit on the verge of spoiling, and dead creatures, her art is a quintessential memento mori and at once an encomium of life. 650 0 $a Still-life photography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128135 600 10 $a Mercer, Vera, $d 1936- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010086184 600 17 $a Mercer, Vera, $d 1936- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01927371 650 7 $a Still-life photography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01133421 700 12 $a Mercer, Vera, $d 1936- $t Photographs. $k Selections. 700 12 $a Buhlmann, Britta. $t Stillleben. 700 12 $a Harder, Matthias, $d 1965- $t Anmut und grazie, im Angesicht des Todes. 730 02 $i Contains expression. $a Life (Distanz Verlag) 730 02 $i Contains expression. $a Life (Distanz Verlag). $l German. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211024424.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5FE982E2F69E11E78A00251D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search