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Lena Herzog
Russian-American artist and photographer
Lena Herzog | |
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| Born | Elena Pisetski 1970 (age 54–55) Ekaterinburg, Russian SFSR |
| Other names | Elena Herzog |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation(s) | Visual artist, photographer |
| Notable work | Tauromaquia, Flamenco, Pilgrims, Lost Souls |
| Spouse | |
| Website | lenaherzog.com |
Elena Herzog (néePisetski; born in 1970) is a Russian-Americanvisual artist and photographer.
Biography
Elena Pisetski was born in Sverdlovsk, in what was then the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, in 1970. She moved to Leningrad in 1987 to attend the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University, where she studied languages (English and Spanish) and literature. In 1990, she emigrated to the United States and graduated with a degree in philosophy from Mills College, specializing in the history and philosophy of science. Herzog was also a research consultant at Stanford University.[1] She started taking photographs in 1997 and studied photographic printing techniques with Italian printer Iv
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LENA HERZOG
by Giuseppe Barbieri and Silvia Burini
This first comprehensive monograph on the work of Lena Herzog is an exhaustive review of three decades of activity, described in essays by professors Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
Lena Herzog’s undaunted and engaging look spans over boundaries and chasms between different levels of life, time, and memory. Her work investigates the universal mystery of being human, from the Cabinets of Wonder and Curiosities of the 18th and 19th centuries to the hollowed out rock formations atop of tepuis in Amazonia, from the deep rituals of the West to the emptiness of nameless lands in the Far East. The various portfolios, here transversally arranged, provide a fascinating cartography of our time and history.
Through innovative experimentation, Lena Herzog fuses Renaissance engraving practices, early techniques of developing and printing photographic images, and cutting edge virtual reality and immersive technologies. In her latest projects, she confronts and denounces the extincti
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Werner Herzog
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Lena Herzog
Lena Herzog was born and grew up in the Urals, on the Western border of Siberia. She studied languages and literature at the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. She moved to the United States to complete her degree in Philosophy at Mills College, California, and worked on an honorarium at Stanford University. Since 1997 Lena Herzog started taking photographs and studying early and alternative printing techniques as well as doing documentary work. She is the author of six books of photography: “Strandbeest / The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen,” “Lost Souls,” “Tauromaquia,” “Flamenco,” and “Pilgrims” among them. Her portfolios appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Cabinet Magazine, The Believer Magazine, Vanity Fair and many others. Herzog is a regular contributing photographer to Harper’s Magazine. Her work has been internationally exhibited and collected by major museums and institutions. Lena and Werner Herzog have been partners since 1995. They married in 1999 and, fo
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