{"product_id":"timm-rautert-anfang-beginnings","title":"Timm Rautert: Anfang\/Beginnings","description":"In 2007 Timm Rautert, then professor of photography at Leipzig's Academy of Fine Arts, began photographing his students with their partners and young children among the designer furniture, second-hand treasures and kids' toys of their apartments. So began a decade-long documentary experiment that shows German families in their revealing home environments and their beginnings as a family unit, with all its complex social connotations. The book consists of 40 triptychs, one of each family. At the center is the mother\/father\/child group; to the left and right the living spaces seem to fold outwards, like a winged altarpiece. Rautert thus questions the idea of the \"holy family\" today though the prism of a specific generation's middle class. His sitters gaze towards us (the children do their best), with varying degrees of formality. Rautert's technical approach is appropriately pared back, creating a neutral stage on which his subjects pose and helping him to seize, in his words, \"that selfsame moment to look at that which I perhaps did not immediately grasp.\" A photographer must take part, must understand; that's the secret to  a successful portrait, even if that understanding sometimes does not dawn till later. Timm Rauter","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664594014244,"sku":"9783958295285","price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958295285.jpg?v=1777358449","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/timm-rautert-anfang-beginnings","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}