Selected Writings, 1998–2015 (Sternberg Press)

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Product Description The writings of photographer and filmmaker Babette Mangolte, exploring her influences, her methods, her practice, and her collaborations in the New York scene. A single black-and white photograph taken by Babette Mangolte has come to epitomize New York's downtown art scene of the 1970s. The dancers performing Trisha Brown's Roof Piece characterize perfectly the wild spirit of the time. Choreographed as an echo of movement unfolding across SoHo's rooftops, the dancers mimed the chimneys, water towers, and fire escapes which surrounded them across that skyline. Influenced early on by Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera and the work of Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, Mangolte began studies in 1964 at the renowned École nationale de la photographie et de la cinematographie in Paris, one of the school's first female students. In 1970, having become disillusioned with the film scene in France, Mangolte moved to New York and became involved in the avant-garde film and dance milieus of the Kitchen and the Anthology Film Archives. EndFragment Selected Writings, 1998–2015 is a collection of texts by Mangolte in which she reflects on her practice as a photographer and filmmaker and her collaborative work with filmmakers, artists, dancers, and choreographers. She provides insights into the techniques and methods she created as well as her relationships with notable collaborators such as Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer. Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien on occasion of the exhibition “Babette Mangolte: I = Eye” About the Author Babette Mangolte (née en 1941 à Montmorot, France, vit et travaille à New York) est une figure emblématique du cinéma expérimental international. Témoin privilégiée de la scène artistique new-yorkaise des années 1970, Babette Mangolte réalisera plusieurs films autour de la performance, de la danse et du théâtre. Elle fut également directrice de la photographie pour Chantal Akerman ou encore Yvonne Rainer. En 1975, Mangolte réalise son premier long-métrage, What Maisie Knew, qui lui vaut le Prix de la Lumière au Festival du Film de Toulon la même année. Elle réalisera également The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977), The Cold Eye (1980), The Sky on Location (1982), Visible Cities (1991) and Four Pieces by Morris (1993). En 2007, elle documente la série de performances Seven Easy Pieces de Marina Abramović au Guggenheim Museum de New York.