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«In the end Otte devotes himself to a dream: He builds a new road. The rotary snowplow is his tool. It drives upon the existing, the direction determining ground, in order to erect another edifice upon it. It follows an old track, but lets itself not be diverted from its undertaking. A gorge offering no escape emerges between the masses of snow, in whose uniformity the(...)
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«In the end Otte devotes himself to a dream: He builds a new road. The rotary snowplow is his tool. It drives upon the existing, the direction determining ground, in order to erect another edifice upon it. It follows an old track, but lets itself not be diverted from its undertaking. A gorge offering no escape emerges between the masses of snow, in whose uniformity the(...)
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January 2007, Salzburg
January 2007, Salzburg
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Hanns Otte : Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse
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«In the end Otte devotes himself to a dream: He builds a new road. The rotary snowplow is his tool. It drives upon the existing, the direction determining ground, in order to erect another edifice upon it. It follows an old track, but lets itself not be diverted from its undertaking. A gorge offering no escape emerges between the masses of snow, in whose uniformity the spatial coordinates are lost. The photographer has moved from the neutral grey to arrive at the white of fantasy. This road appears to be a path into the unreal, away from the certainties of daily life- and yet, heaping up the snow is only the trite means to make a road also passable in the winter.» Timm Starl 2007
Hanns Otte : Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse
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«In the end Otte devotes himself to a dream: He builds a new road. The rotary snowplow is his tool. It drives upon the existing, the direction determining ground, in order to erect another edifice upon it. It follows an old track, but lets itself not be diverted from its undertaking. A gorge offering no escape emerges between the masses of snow, in whose uniformity the spatial coordinates are lost. The photographer has moved from the neutral grey to arrive at the white of fantasy. This road appears to be a path into the unreal, away from the certainties of daily life- and yet, heaping up the snow is only the trite means to make a road also passable in the winter.» Timm Starl 2007
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January 2007, Salzburg
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When Tod Papageorge began this work, the newspaper saw Central Park chiefly as a site of danger and outrage, and they were doubtless partly right. But the park shown here seems no more dangerous than life itself, and no less filled with beauty, charming incident, excess, jokes in questionable taste, unintended consequence, and pathos, truly described. One might say that(...)
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When Tod Papageorge began this work, the newspaper saw Central Park chiefly as a site of danger and outrage, and they were doubtless partly right. But the park shown here seems no more dangerous than life itself, and no less filled with beauty, charming incident, excess, jokes in questionable taste, unintended consequence, and pathos, truly described. One might say that(...)
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Tod Papageorge Passing through eden : Photographs of Central Park
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When Tod Papageorge began this work, the newspaper saw Central Park chiefly as a site of danger and outrage, and they were doubtless partly right. But the park shown here seems no more dangerous than life itself, and no less filled with beauty, charming incident, excess, jokes in questionable taste, unintended consequence, and pathos, truly described. One might say that no artist has done so much for this piece of land since Frederick Law Olmstead.
Tod Papageorge Passing through eden : Photographs of Central Park
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When Tod Papageorge began this work, the newspaper saw Central Park chiefly as a site of danger and outrage, and they were doubtless partly right. But the park shown here seems no more dangerous than life itself, and no less filled with beauty, charming incident, excess, jokes in questionable taste, unintended consequence, and pathos, truly described. One might say that no artist has done so much for this piece of land since Frederick Law Olmstead.
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July 2007, Steidl
July 2007, Steidl
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The north end
The north end
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Award-winning documentary maker John Paskievich has made his name making films about places and people throughout the world. His films made for the National Film Board have chronicled groups as different as young Czechs trying to be North American Indians, the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia, and an isolated group of Orthodox Russians on the Canadian prairies. As(...)
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Award-winning documentary maker John Paskievich has made his name making films about places and people throughout the world. His films made for the National Film Board have chronicled groups as different as young Czechs trying to be North American Indians, the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia, and an isolated group of Orthodox Russians on the Canadian prairies. As(...)
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The north end
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Award-winning documentary maker John Paskievich has made his name making films about places and people throughout the world. His films made for the National Film Board have chronicled groups as different as young Czechs trying to be North American Indians, the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia, and an isolated group of Orthodox Russians on the Canadian prairies. As a filmmaker, his work has been shown at film festivals throughout North America and Europe, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Festival of Festivals. In "The North End", Paskievich returns to his first love, photography. His lyrical black and white photographs chronicle a community closer to home, the iconic Winnipeg neighbourhood in which he grew up. Winnipeg’s North End is the great Canadian melting pot, the place "north of the tracks" that welcomed waves of immigrants from central and eastern Europe at the turn of the last century. It is a place that spawned some of Canada’s greatest cultural events and personalities, from the Winnipeg General Strike to the Guess Who. Paskievich captures the vibrancy and conflicts of the North End and other urban spaces like it, places where history, poverty, and resilience come together.
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Award-winning documentary maker John Paskievich has made his name making films about places and people throughout the world. His films made for the National Film Board have chronicled groups as different as young Czechs trying to be North American Indians, the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia, and an isolated group of Orthodox Russians on the Canadian prairies. As a filmmaker, his work has been shown at film festivals throughout North America and Europe, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Festival of Festivals. In "The North End", Paskievich returns to his first love, photography. His lyrical black and white photographs chronicle a community closer to home, the iconic Winnipeg neighbourhood in which he grew up. Winnipeg’s North End is the great Canadian melting pot, the place "north of the tracks" that welcomed waves of immigrants from central and eastern Europe at the turn of the last century. It is a place that spawned some of Canada’s greatest cultural events and personalities, from the Winnipeg General Strike to the Guess Who. Paskievich captures the vibrancy and conflicts of the North End and other urban spaces like it, places where history, poverty, and resilience come together.
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October 2007
October 2007
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The evocative images found in this book document the ever-changing face of East Berlin and its people. The title of the book is photographer Nicholas Sinclair’s adaptation of the musical term tritone, the musical intervention that creates a sense of tension and suspense—a mood that is evident in the color combinations of these haunting images. Split into six different(...)
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The evocative images found in this book document the ever-changing face of East Berlin and its people. The title of the book is photographer Nicholas Sinclair’s adaptation of the musical term tritone, the musical intervention that creates a sense of tension and suspense—a mood that is evident in the color combinations of these haunting images. Split into six different(...)
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Berlin : Imagining the Tri Chord
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The evocative images found in this book document the ever-changing face of East Berlin and its people. The title of the book is photographer Nicholas Sinclair’s adaptation of the musical term tritone, the musical intervention that creates a sense of tension and suspense—a mood that is evident in the color combinations of these haunting images. Split into six different themes the photographs form a fascinating record of East Berlin’s vibrant, passionate, and scarred landscape.
Berlin : Imagining the Tri Chord
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The evocative images found in this book document the ever-changing face of East Berlin and its people. The title of the book is photographer Nicholas Sinclair’s adaptation of the musical term tritone, the musical intervention that creates a sense of tension and suspense—a mood that is evident in the color combinations of these haunting images. Split into six different themes the photographs form a fascinating record of East Berlin’s vibrant, passionate, and scarred landscape.
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October 2007, London
October 2007, London
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Pierre Faure Japan
Pierre Faure Japan
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On doit à l’éditeur allemand Daab l’initiative de publier Japan du photographe français Pierre Faure avec une courte introduction de Franz van der Grinten. L’ouvrage est un des plus impressionnants de l’année, avec un format majeur (26 x 36,5cm) et un nombre d’images en proportion (125). La chose n’est toutefois pas étonnante puisque Pierre Faure – trop peu montré en(...)
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On doit à l’éditeur allemand Daab l’initiative de publier Japan du photographe français Pierre Faure avec une courte introduction de Franz van der Grinten. L’ouvrage est un des plus impressionnants de l’année, avec un format majeur (26 x 36,5cm) et un nombre d’images en proportion (125). La chose n’est toutefois pas étonnante puisque Pierre Faure – trop peu montré en(...)
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April 2007, Cologne, London, New York
April 2007, Cologne, London, New York
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Pierre Faure Japan
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On doit à l’éditeur allemand Daab l’initiative de publier Japan du photographe français Pierre Faure avec une courte introduction de Franz van der Grinten. L’ouvrage est un des plus impressionnants de l’année, avec un format majeur (26 x 36,5cm) et un nombre d’images en proportion (125). La chose n’est toutefois pas étonnante puisque Pierre Faure – trop peu montré en France il est vrai (nous l’avions présenté dans "La Région humaine" au MAC de Lyon fin 2006 avec une sélection du corpus édité aujourd’hui) – est représenté par la galerie de Cologne Kudlek van der Grinten. Les visiteurs de la dernière édition de Paris Photo ont pu découvrir quelques tirages de Japan sur le stand de la galerie allemande. Aujourd’hui mieux connu outre-Rhin qu’en France, Pierre Faure affirme donc un travail qu’il est urgent de diffuser ici. Mission que remplit aujourd’hui le livre Japan.
Pierre Faure Japan
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On doit à l’éditeur allemand Daab l’initiative de publier Japan du photographe français Pierre Faure avec une courte introduction de Franz van der Grinten. L’ouvrage est un des plus impressionnants de l’année, avec un format majeur (26 x 36,5cm) et un nombre d’images en proportion (125). La chose n’est toutefois pas étonnante puisque Pierre Faure – trop peu montré en France il est vrai (nous l’avions présenté dans "La Région humaine" au MAC de Lyon fin 2006 avec une sélection du corpus édité aujourd’hui) – est représenté par la galerie de Cologne Kudlek van der Grinten. Les visiteurs de la dernière édition de Paris Photo ont pu découvrir quelques tirages de Japan sur le stand de la galerie allemande. Aujourd’hui mieux connu outre-Rhin qu’en France, Pierre Faure affirme donc un travail qu’il est urgent de diffuser ici. Mission que remplit aujourd’hui le livre Japan.
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April 2007, Cologne, London, New York
April 2007, Cologne, London, New York
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Michel Campeau : Darkroom
Michel Campeau : Darkroom
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Darkroom is the first book in a series edited by Martin Parr, for Nazraeli Press, with the aim of presenting work that has never before been published in book form but which most definitely "should have been." This evocative set of images has risen from visits to over darkrooms in Campeau's native Canada, and while it might be a stretch to imagine a less promising subject(...)
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Darkroom is the first book in a series edited by Martin Parr, for Nazraeli Press, with the aim of presenting work that has never before been published in book form but which most definitely "should have been." This evocative set of images has risen from visits to over darkrooms in Campeau's native Canada, and while it might be a stretch to imagine a less promising subject(...)
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Michel Campeau : Darkroom
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Darkroom is the first book in a series edited by Martin Parr, for Nazraeli Press, with the aim of presenting work that has never before been published in book form but which most definitely "should have been." This evocative set of images has risen from visits to over darkrooms in Campeau's native Canada, and while it might be a stretch to imagine a less promising subject matter, the end result is a superb and fascinating tribute to an increasingly rare working environment. Michel Campeau lives and works in Montreal.
Michel Campeau : Darkroom
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Darkroom is the first book in a series edited by Martin Parr, for Nazraeli Press, with the aim of presenting work that has never before been published in book form but which most definitely "should have been." This evocative set of images has risen from visits to over darkrooms in Campeau's native Canada, and while it might be a stretch to imagine a less promising subject matter, the end result is a superb and fascinating tribute to an increasingly rare working environment. Michel Campeau lives and works in Montreal.
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January 1900, Portland
January 1900, Portland
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L'Américain William Eggleston, l'un des plus grands photographes du monde, a été invité par la ville de Dunkerque pour en dresser le portrait photographique. Mais, plus qu'un portrait, cette série confère à la fresque. William Eggleston, Spirit of Dunkerque, la dernière série exécutée par l'artiste, est donc une œuvre d'art en soi. Les cinquante photographies du présent(...)
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L'Américain William Eggleston, l'un des plus grands photographes du monde, a été invité par la ville de Dunkerque pour en dresser le portrait photographique. Mais, plus qu'un portrait, cette série confère à la fresque. William Eggleston, Spirit of Dunkerque, la dernière série exécutée par l'artiste, est donc une œuvre d'art en soi. Les cinquante photographies du présent(...)
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August 2006, Dunkerque
August 2006, Dunkerque
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William Eggleston : spirit of Dunkerque
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L'Américain William Eggleston, l'un des plus grands photographes du monde, a été invité par la ville de Dunkerque pour en dresser le portrait photographique. Mais, plus qu'un portrait, cette série confère à la fresque. William Eggleston, Spirit of Dunkerque, la dernière série exécutée par l'artiste, est donc une œuvre d'art en soi. Les cinquante photographies du présent ouvrage composent une suite harmonieuse et une traversée en contrepoint de la ville du Nord.
William Eggleston : spirit of Dunkerque
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L'Américain William Eggleston, l'un des plus grands photographes du monde, a été invité par la ville de Dunkerque pour en dresser le portrait photographique. Mais, plus qu'un portrait, cette série confère à la fresque. William Eggleston, Spirit of Dunkerque, la dernière série exécutée par l'artiste, est donc une œuvre d'art en soi. Les cinquante photographies du présent ouvrage composent une suite harmonieuse et une traversée en contrepoint de la ville du Nord.
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August 2006, Dunkerque
August 2006, Dunkerque
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For the past two decades Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format glossy color pictures of art in museums and in auction houses. In addition she has produced a variety of objects-paperweights, etched drinking glasses, matchbooks, gallery announcements-all of which describe how art(...)
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For the past two decades Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format glossy color pictures of art in museums and in auction houses. In addition she has produced a variety of objects-paperweights, etched drinking glasses, matchbooks, gallery announcements-all of which describe how art(...)
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October 2006, Cambridge, (MA), Columbus
October 2006, Cambridge, (MA), Columbus
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Louise Lawler : twice untitled and other pictures (looking back)
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For the past two decades Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format glossy color pictures of art in museums and in auction houses. In addition she has produced a variety of objects-paperweights, etched drinking glasses, matchbooks, gallery announcements-all of which describe how art comes to accrue value as it moves through various systems of exchange. Lawler's oeuvre was essential in creating an expanded field for photography, it was crucial in postmodern debates over theories of representation, it remains indelible within the field of institutional critique, and it has always been trenchant in its sustained commitment to a feminist vision of art, art history, and contemporary art practice. But Lawler is also an old-fashioned "artist's artist," long overdue for the kind of serious reconsideration and recognition that this volume affords. The very self-effacing nature of Lawler's practice, however, her continual suspicion about notions of authorship-and her sly disregard for museological conventions-have meant that she has resisted precisely the usual mid-career retrospective. "Twice untitled and other pictures", published in conjunction with Lawler's first major museum exhibition in the United States, organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, eats away at the standard museum practices of chronology, linear development, and the presentation of masterpieces, opting instead to explore such themes and undercurrents in Lawler's practice as her relationship to sculpture, her long history of collaborative projects, her production of such ephemera as napkins, matchbooks, and announcement cards, and the steady political dimension of her work-which culminated most recently in works that are deeply critical of the American invasion of Iraq. With essays by art historian and political theorist Rosalyn Deutsche and curators Ann Goldstein and Helen Molesworth.
Louise Lawler : twice untitled and other pictures (looking back)
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For the past two decades Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format glossy color pictures of art in museums and in auction houses. In addition she has produced a variety of objects-paperweights, etched drinking glasses, matchbooks, gallery announcements-all of which describe how art comes to accrue value as it moves through various systems of exchange. Lawler's oeuvre was essential in creating an expanded field for photography, it was crucial in postmodern debates over theories of representation, it remains indelible within the field of institutional critique, and it has always been trenchant in its sustained commitment to a feminist vision of art, art history, and contemporary art practice. But Lawler is also an old-fashioned "artist's artist," long overdue for the kind of serious reconsideration and recognition that this volume affords. The very self-effacing nature of Lawler's practice, however, her continual suspicion about notions of authorship-and her sly disregard for museological conventions-have meant that she has resisted precisely the usual mid-career retrospective. "Twice untitled and other pictures", published in conjunction with Lawler's first major museum exhibition in the United States, organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, eats away at the standard museum practices of chronology, linear development, and the presentation of masterpieces, opting instead to explore such themes and undercurrents in Lawler's practice as her relationship to sculpture, her long history of collaborative projects, her production of such ephemera as napkins, matchbooks, and announcement cards, and the steady political dimension of her work-which culminated most recently in works that are deeply critical of the American invasion of Iraq. With essays by art historian and political theorist Rosalyn Deutsche and curators Ann Goldstein and Helen Molesworth.
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October 2006, Cambridge, (MA), Columbus
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work - at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation - has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff,(...)
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work - at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation - has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff,(...)
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November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
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Bernd and Hiller Becher : life and work
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work - at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation - has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Andreas Gursky. This compelling, exhaustively documented biography describes the Bechers' life and work and offers a critical assessment of their place in the history of photography. Becher scholar Susanne Lange, granted access to the photographers' archives and quoting extensively from interviews with them, writes the first sustained analysis and biography of the Bechers' extraordinary partnership. She discusses, among other topics, both the functionalist and aesthetic dimensions of the Bechers' subject matter, their typologizing (which she finds reminiscent of nineteenth-century naturalists' classificatory schemes), and the anonymous industrial building style favored by German architects. She argues that industrial building types impose themselves on our consciousness as the cathedral did on that of the Middle Ages, and that the Bechers' photographs -which seem at first glance only to record a vanishing landscape - serve to examine this shaping of our perceptions. Their work provides us with a rare opportunity to see how we see.
Bernd and Hiller Becher : life and work
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work - at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation - has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Andreas Gursky. This compelling, exhaustively documented biography describes the Bechers' life and work and offers a critical assessment of their place in the history of photography. Becher scholar Susanne Lange, granted access to the photographers' archives and quoting extensively from interviews with them, writes the first sustained analysis and biography of the Bechers' extraordinary partnership. She discusses, among other topics, both the functionalist and aesthetic dimensions of the Bechers' subject matter, their typologizing (which she finds reminiscent of nineteenth-century naturalists' classificatory schemes), and the anonymous industrial building style favored by German architects. She argues that industrial building types impose themselves on our consciousness as the cathedral did on that of the Middle Ages, and that the Bechers' photographs -which seem at first glance only to record a vanishing landscape - serve to examine this shaping of our perceptions. Their work provides us with a rare opportunity to see how we see.
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November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
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Grain elevators
Grain elevators
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes one important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain(...)
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes one important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain(...)
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November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
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Grain elevators
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes one important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain elevators are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.
Grain elevators
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes one important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain elevators are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.
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November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
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