The Body Will Thrive

Lore Stessel

Dimensions	260 × 200 mm
printrun	print-run 300 copies
Cover	softcover
binding	thread bound
Format	260 x 200 mm
coverage	100 pages
Design by	Design by Geoffrey Brusatto
additional authors	Texts by Nico Anklam & Marie-Pascale Gildemyn
language	English / French / Dutch
Publisher	self published
year	2020

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This book groups my photographic research on dance and movement of the past six years. It can be read as a choreography in which the rhythm of the dance is accompanied by the pace of turning each page. — Lore Stessel

Whether we float high above snow capped mountains or dive deep below the surface of the ocean, to where air bubbles beautifully twinkle, Lore Stessel’s images are breathtaking. (…) There is something all-encompassing in her works that reaches from the stratosphere, up above the globe, down to the charming wrinkles on the back of an anonymous nude. (…) Lore Stessel’s “images”, (…) generate (…) a fragile, threatened image, so close in its organization, its granular texture, and its emergent aspect, to certain Seurats — an incomparable image which makes one dream of a photographic substance distinct from subject matter, and of an art in which light creates its own metaphor. (1) — from Nico Anklam, Up above the mountain, down by the sea. Painterly encounters of a photographic kind.

(1) Hubert Damish, Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image. In: October, Vol. 5, Photography (Summer, 1978), p 72