Jessica Backhaus
Jessica Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany in 1970 and grew up in her family of artists. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later studied Photography and Visual Communications from…
“Presence, image, and suggestion: art’s sacred trinity is embodied with such generous concentration in these images by Jessica Backhaus, who we as Chileans should thank for making so exquisitely visible, what we are too distracted to notice. The power of the color that portrays and crowns the subject, provokes the sensation that we are seeing something we see every day but haven’t actually seen before.”
From the introduction by Antonio Skármeta
Far Away But Close showcases work made by Jessica Backhaus during many visits to Chile over the last seven years.
72 pp / 240 x 190mm
Softcover
Fedrigoni & GF Smith papers:
350gsm Satin cover
170gsm Satin text
Colorplan Sapphire endpapers
Edition TBC
APP031
ISBN 978-1-9162385-0-3
Introduction by Antonio Skármeta
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Jessica Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany in 1970 and grew up in her family of artists. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later studied Photography and Visual Communications from…