Miron Zownir: Radical Eye
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
4 December 1999 - 29 January 2000
MIRON ZOWNIR (b. 1953) started out photographing punks in Berlin in the 1970s, and then moved to the USA where he began chronicling fringe sexuality, freaks and down-and-outs in New York. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he went to Russia to continue his work there.
The result is a collection of every kind of depravity and degradation, humanity at its lowest ebb: freaks, drug addicts, the insane, and other outsiders-each difficult to behold, and even harder to accept. But Miron Zownir makes no judgements about his subjects or their lives. He lets them express themselves solely through his camera lens; they look at us and their gaze shows us who they are.
The portraits of these people fascinate us because they transcend voyeuristic glimpses of weirdness to represent unflinching portraits of humanity.
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