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A. R. Penck
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Michael Wesely
The transience of life has been a topic for centuries. Vanitas still lives, a specialty of the 17th century, speak a clear and often drastic language that includes skulls, dead animals, rotting fruit, and fading flowers. In his still lives of flowers created between 2001 and 2007 Michael Wesely, too, focuses on the idea of the memento mori. Using large-format cameras, which he built himself, he produces long-time exposures of several hours or days. In pictures that are as irritating as they are mesmerizing, he visualizes the withering flowers' fragile, vibrant life of their own. This book, with an essay by Franz-W. Kaiser, is published to accompany an exhibition at The Hague's Gemeentemuseum.
Milli Bau: Silk Road
In 1956, the journalist and photographer Milli Bau set out in a VW-bus to explore the countries along the Silk Road.She spent a longer period of time at some locations, but only passed through others.She later lived in Tehran and worked as a correspondent.Her Rolleiflex and her journal accompanied her on her extraordinary journey, to lands of which some can hardly still be visited today.In her photographs, it is possible to see nearly 20 years of cultural and contemporary history.This publication is a document of contemporary history by a travelling journalist who left Germany in the 1950s and found herself in the world.Milli Bau is an outstanding example of the life of a woman who should not be forgotten.English and German text.
Centenarium
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Black Maps
Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel's career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel's images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.
