Helmut Schweizer Handlungen/ Actions Seubert His portraits

His portraits

Elle vole à des kilomètres

comme souvent avec elle

ou tout est de nouveau possible

je sens plus que jamais que j’arrête le temps

Helmut Schweizer Handlungen/ Actions Seubert His portraitsBetween 1970 and 1976, Helmut Schweizer developed his photographic series Handlungen (Actions). Across more than one hundred three part tableaux, the artist stages everyday situationsoften surprising, at times subtly absurd. Handlungen stands as one of the key contributions to conceptual photography of the 1970s. Five decades after its creation, the series is published here in its entirety for the first time. The book draws on a comprehensive study of