Escargot, 1992

Human Body

The examination of the body - sometimes understood as human landscape, times in its fragments - plays a major role in the work of Balthasar Burkhard. In the history of the photographic transcendence of the body into the sculptural Burkhard's work as well as inscribed in the history of photography as a "tableau-Form" (Jean-François Chevrier): Photography as figurative medium takes over functions and picture modes of painting here.