Brut

Austrian photographer Paul Kranzler is a storyteller. In his acclaimedbooks Land of Milk and Honey (2005) and Tom (2007), Kranzler appliedhis socio-documentary style to tell ruthless yet sensitive stories ofpeople and environments in rural Austria. In Brut, Kranzler turns his lenson his own family, choosing 120 images from among the thousandshe has taken of his family since 2004, and providing revealing captionsabout family history and the realities of everyday life. ''In the livingroom my father likes to show slides he took in the States in the 1970s,''writes Kranzler. ''He says that the town of Traun is Austria's equivalentto Los Angeles, and he's not wrong.'' Once again, this influentialphotographer creates an atmosphere in which intimate images emerge.