GABO
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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C.V.
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PUBLICATIONS
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WORKS
Liaisons Erotiques
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
LIAISONS EROTIQUES
Gabo, born in Hamburg, Germany, is one of the best-known fashion photographers internationally. Her portraits of personalities from show business, sports, society, and culture have become legendary. Her work in international magazines has brought her photographic work to the broad public. Especially unique were her portraits of Boris Becker or of punk singer Nina Hagen. Through her eyes Eric Clapton’s face became an unforgettable landscape; the experience of life mirrored in every wrinkle. In this serie Liaisons Erotiques, shot for a calender for Lambertz, we encounter a Gabo combining style, fashion, self-confident women, eroticism, and sensuality. Remarkable are the interiors in which she places her models; it has absolutely nothing in common with the “typical German” coolness associated with German style. On the contrary, the scenery incorporates elements of an ornamental delight that appeared a few years ago in the scene of art photography as well. Gabo’s talent is to create scenes of intimacy. They inspire us to fantasize about what might have happened in the moments before the photograph was taken, and what might happen a moment later. Which “plot” came to life? How will the story continue? Gabo’s view is female and her view of passion, sensuality, and erotic self representation never turns into embarrassment, but rather everything seems to be staged by the women themselves and therefore natural and self - evident.
