Big Sur Real.
In his latest book project, Branko Lenart has focused on the process of choice as a creative act. He has collected 119 photographs from 1970 to 2020 under the title “BIG SUR REAL”.
Branko Lenart (1948, Ptuj, Slovenia) was born in the former Yugoslavia, but his family emigrated to nearby Austria when he was six years old. He studied pedagogy in Graz and in 1968 became a member of the photography section of the Graz art association Forum Stadtpark, from which Camera Austria later emerged. Until 2007 he was active as a lecturer in photography at the Graz Higher State School of Art and Design (1979 – 2007) and at the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz (1996 – 2003).
Lenart is an internationally renowned photographer who has travelled extensively around the world since his youth, often staying at artist residencies such as the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, La Rochelle, Arles, Oxford, Rome, Paris and London. His oeuvre is divided between documentary and conceptual auteur photography. He has paid particular attention to the social periphery, to members of the former urban counterculture or rural society, and has coined the term “subjective topography” for this type of photography.
Photographs by Branko Lenart
Editor: Günther Friesinger
Selection of reproductions: Janez Korošin, Primož Lampič
Text: Marjeta Ciglenečki, Günther Holler-Schuster
Readings: Bokmal
Read by Evelyn Fürlinger
Year of publication: 2023
Hardcover, 152 pages
ISBN: 978-3-902796-89-9
