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She, her and me: Chris Kraus finds the very definition of glamour in the work of Iris Klein.(Views)

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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THE FIRST THING that strikes me about Iris Klein's beautiful photographic series She, Her and Me is how her work evokes the emotional atmosphere of surrealism, its sluggish and mildly electrified languor, without ever critically referencing it as an art movement. She manages to hit some of in...

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...the same psychic and visual marks made the past, without tritely historicizing it. Her work summons the sense of what can be done with free time, if we let ourselves use it.

Klein, an Austrian-born photographer now living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, began this body of work in the late 90s after a seven-year stint as a fashion model in Japan and Los Angeles. Her mostly black-and-white photographs are exquisitely rendered as gelatin silver prints in small editions. For seven years, between 1998 and 2005, Klein's images featured a lone central figure whose face was obscured (underexposed, to the point of absolute blackness), positioned in set interior decors and desolate landscapes.

At first glance, this tall, lanky figure appears to be Klein herself. But looking closer, there's...

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