By blending technique, process and intent Kuhn brings transcendent reflections to light by exploring shadows. Collaborating with her subjects, all enter into an undefined space to await the moment where art and life coalesce. In this session Kuhn’s restless energy generously shares her meditative photographic practice.   

In this book group, Mona Kuhn discusses, among other things:

The humanist influence of Brazilian photographer, Mario Cravo Neto

Allowing life to enter one’s work

An image which keeps on giving, lasts

The role of vulnerability and insecurities to propel work

The collaborative role of the subject, their creative freedom which grants them the final decision in allowing publication

Being led by shadow

Being dressed in your own skin

The fecundity of the female

Discerning and protecting your visual vocabulary

Intuitive intelligence and the abundance of the unconscious

Referenced in the episode

BODY The Photography Book Nathalie Herschdorfer

Lucian Freud

Imogen Cunningham

August Colbert - Origin of the World

Mario Cravo Neto

Christian Cavo’s work

Getty Research Institute

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