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Jules Spinatsch
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Vertige : Jules Spinatsch, Cécile Wick, Nicolas Faure : [exposition], Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, 27.02-26.04.2008
Text in English, Italian & German. Whereas the mountains in Swiss art have always occupied a central position in national iconography and, in their powerfulness and unalterability, have been regarded as a constantly recurring symbol of the original Helvetian character, they have recently figured increasingly as a metaphoric territory in which the contradictions in the behaviour of post industrial man towards nature and the landscape are shown in a particularly conspicuous and suspense-filled fashion. In his "Snow Management" photographs, Jules Spinatsch has created an impressive document of the post-modern development of the Alps into a leisure theme park, In precisely illuminated and some-w...
Jules Spinatsch: Davos Is a Verb
A photographic account of an Alpine town's extreme servitude to the World Economic Forum Every January, for four days, a small town in the Swiss Alps is transformed into a Potemkin village. The World Economic Forum brings heads of state, politicians and activists to Davos, followed by global corporations who use the venue for international appearances, informal receptions and lobbying. The short-term demand for free, playable rooms, space and accommodation has far-reaching consequences: shops and apartments are vacant for most of the year in order to be rented out for horrendous sums during the event. In 2020, Facebook erected a temporary two-story pavilion, while at the same time a bookstore disappeared completely from the main street. Davos Is a Verbis the photographic documentation of this madness. Photographer Jules Spinatsch (born 1964) makes Davos visible as a fleeting world in which public space is reinterpreted and everything is in flux.
Temporary Discomfort
Temporary Discomfort is artist Jules Spinatsch's documentation of three cities in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during two global economic summits (WEF and G8). It comines different photographical genres: landscape photography of the site, photojournalism, and police photography, but with the camera lens turned, atypically, on the security forces. The photo series and videos aim to achieve a speculative reconstruction of the situations in Davos, New York, Genoa and Evian/Geneva, while they also ask questions about the conditions under which photography is and can be produced today. Spinatsch's position while working on the project was that of an informed outsider--his presence in the area around the meetings was acknowledged by the security forces but not really appreciated, which was one the factors that determined his work. Spinatsch's new approach to documentary photography is theorized here by essayist Martin Jaeggi and presented through beautiful photographs with strong political undertones.
Semiautomatic Photography
For 15 years, Swiss documentary photographer Jules Spinatsch (born 1964) has been creating panoramas of various spaces--football stadiums, the Vienna Opera Ball, a prison, the SAP headquarters--by combining thousands of individual images. Spinatsch's series and his creative process are documented in this volume.
Jules Spinatsch
Since the 18th century, the Swiss Alps have been considered the epitome of sublime nature. But today the survival of the winter sports industry is in question, as the promises of eternal snow through technology have turned out to be an empty promise.0In this book Jules Spinatsch presents his photographic series documenting ski slopes being prepared at night. Under the glare of cold floodlights, machines noisily turn nature into a tourist experience, with snow cannons at full blast and bulldozers flattening the slopes. The photographs evoke the cold emptiness of stills from a science-fiction film about a barren planet being made habitable. This oeuvre makes manifest the technology, staging, and mediatization that have become the basis of contemporary life.0The seven chapters in this publication, developed after Spinatsch won the international BMW Prize at Paris Photo for the best first photographic series, also includes the artist's collection of historical postcards of the Alps, and a series of medical still lifes. With contributions by Tobia Bezzola and Walter Keller.
Semiautomatic Photography
Jules Spinatsch began working with automatic cameras fifteen years ago, making use of the equipment employed in the surveillance of public spaces. At the time he created a 180° panorama of the World Economic Forum in Davos consisting of 2,176 individual images. He continued the group of works entitled Semiautomatic Photography with, among other things, shots of a football stadium, the Vienna Opera Ball, a prison, and the SAP headquarters. The book Semiautomatic Photography now shows the complete cycle for the first time. In it, Spinatsch foregrounds a selection of individual pictures that otherwise form a tiny element in his panoramas. Rather like in William S. Boroughs's cut-ups, this process of "cutting out" single photos gives rise to a subversive image strategy, reflecting on the function of the visual in a society of control. --Publisher's website.
Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
This book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities
Why Exhibit?
This publication offers a spectrum of views on how the myriad forms of exhibiting photographies can increase our understanding of how images operate today, as well as what they do to us when we interact with them. In the Digital Age, "photography" is best described with adjectives connoting a medium in constant flux: liquid, fluid, flexible, unstable. As such, there is no primary format for displaying photographs. By drawing upon the diverse perspectives of a group of curators, scholars, photographers, and artists based in the field of contemporary photography, this volume aims to provide a foundation for a wider discourse about exhibiting photographies in the twenty-first century.
Water
Prix Pictet is the world's first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability.
