Author Description

"Photo-illustrations for Thomas Bernhard's A Child contains 22 pictures. The photos do not try to capture Bernhard's real life story, instead they remain distanced from it. So if there is a reference, it is the textual composition itself. The series foregrounds objects, buildings and landscapes that are mentioned in the text. Again and again, the photos leave spaces resembling theatre scenery or backdrops that can be filled in fictitiously with the help of the accompanying text passages. The illustrations are preceded by three short essays that deal with A Child from literary and educational points of view. All the texts and quotations appear here in both English and German." --Back cover.