THE OPÉRA
Volume V
THE OPÉRA is a photo book published each year about the most direct form of portraiture: nude photography. In large and small stagings, the editor, Matthias Straub, is now presenting a brilliant range of nude photographs and hence the human body as a stage and spectacle for the fifth time. Just as the dramaturgy of a classical opera, according to Gustav Freytag (1816 – 1895), concludes with five acts, THE OPÉRA is also coming to an end for the time being with its fifth edition, which is defined by a deliberate arc of tension from Volume I to V. The metaphorical finale is characterized by strong artistic means of expression — from extremely sensitive and delicate positions to quite abstract and experimental nude photography.
June 2016
ISBN 978-3-7356-0243-5
24 × 31 cm
200 pages
150 colored and 44 b/w illustrations
Gatefold Brochure, bound
Languages: English
Editor
Matthias Straub
Text by
Matthias Straub
Design by
Romano Dudas
Events
Release Party: 18.06.2016, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart
