Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Christian Feest, Dennis Francis, Christine Turnauer.
In 1986, Austrian photographer Christine Turnauer (born 1946) traveled thousands of miles from Northern Alberta to Southern Montana, with a mobile studio tent in tow, to document the traditional dance contests of indigenous North Americans known as pow wows. A pow wow offers an occasion to meet and dance, sing, socialize and celebrate culture; pow wows may vary in length from a one-day event to major occasions lasting a week.
Turnauer portrayed the dance contests, their participants and related events in austere black and white, encouraging collaboration in the construction of her portraits and without staging the images herself.
Turnauer is author of the previous monographs Presence (2014) and Dignity of the Gypsies (2018).
Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Karl-Markus Gauss, Siva Prasad, Franz Salm, et al.
Austrian photographer Christine Turnauer (born 1945) details her search for Roma (gypsy) history. Her documentation begins in Gujarat and Rajasthan, and continues through Hungary, Romania, Montenegro and Kosovo.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Frank Horvat, Christine Turnauer.
Austrian photographer Christine Turnauer (born 1945) depicts significant encounters between two or more people, photographed against neutral, preexisting backgrounds. Presence highlights these respectful, moving portraits in black and white.
Christine Turnauer: Dignity of the Gypsies
Christine Turnauer: Presence