Lillian Birnbaum
Photography
Movies
1959 born in Brooklyn, New York.
Living and working in Paris.
Late 1970's
First reportage photographs.
1982
Follows over 15 months ten patients, known for their paintings and poetry, in the Gugging psychiatric clinic in Vienna. The project is exhibited in different galleries and museums in Austria (Thaddeus, Ropac and the Museum of Modern art in Linz).
From 1980's
Collaboration with different European and American magazines («Frankfurter
Allgemeine» in particular).
2001
Beginning of photographic serie «Transition».
Publications
1991
Publication of project «Vier Frauen» with the German actresses Hanna Schygulla,
Barbara Sukowa and Katharina Thalbach.
Late 1990's
Starts collaborating with movie directors and producers.
1999
Producer of the movies «Central» and «One day in september».
2006
Co-director of the documentary movie «A bridge between two worlds ».
We are all of us emigrants from a country we can remember little of and we try to reconstruct it, but all that is most important about it escapes us.
We feel that we have never been so happy since we left it or so miserable, but we can't remember how the happiness felt or the quality of the misery : we watch our children's eyes for hints. Knowledge has altered the taste of every emotion ...
Graham Green, «The lost chilhood»
Over five years the photographer Lillian Birnbum has followed young Adah and her friends, creating a diaristic serie capturing moments of innocence and fragility, play and seriousness. Some partly staged, most of them snap shots, the photographs
become reflections on childhood and the first discovery of the young girls feminity.
The continous work has made the camera a part of the girls'...