Barbara & Michael Leisgen - Mimesis - Photography

Born in 1940 in Gengenbach (DE) / Born in 1944 in Spital a. Pyhrn (AT) Live and work in Aix-la-Chapelle (DE) In the 1970s, the early works of Barbara & Michael Leisgen came as a counterpoint to conceptual photography, notably that of Bernd & Hilla Becher’s typology school of Düsseldorf. The series that the five Frac pictures are taken from belongs to practices operating since the early 1960s: the recording of a natural imprint, research into the body theme and experiments with Land art. Barbara Leisgen’s si