Barbara Probst: Exposures

Barbara Probst: Exposures 9 x 10 inches108 Pages, Hardcover 114 Color Plates Designed by Barbara Probst Publisher: Steidl (November, 2007)ISBN:       978-3865213921 In Barbara Probst’s series Exposures (2000-2006), she dissects the relationship between the photographic “moment” and perceived reality by showing a single action from numerous points of view. Probst arranges for multiple photographers to take pictures of the same subject from varying angles (and distances) at precisely the same moment. The multiple exposures are more than a meditation on the event being recorded — the images examine the act of reading photographs as documents of the actions or people they depict. While one may suggest voyeuristic qualities, another incorporates the slipshod framing of a snapshot, and another image may more closely resemble a runway shot of a model on the move. In this way, Probst’s sequences point out that the different ways we “direct” a photograph, by the position, settings, and film of