Michael Schreier: Storyteller / Waiting for words
Emily Falvey
The Ottawa Art Gallery (July 2010)
52 pp col. ill. 10 x 8 in softcover
978-1-894906-38-8
$20.00 Can. $23.95 U.S. (16 euros)
Michael Schreier’s photographic art represents several years’ inquiry with particular reference to his birthplace, Vienna, Austria. His portraits and photographs of architectural details offer powerful entry into another place and another time: the Holocaust. In her essay, Falvey probes this compelling work with a discussion of the “refusal to depict what cannot or should not be represented realistically; an art of respectful silence before sublime history.” Schreier’s work navigates these troubled aesthetic waters. In English and French.
