This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey presents the work of nearly 120 international artists at the forefront of the boom in photography, among them Elina Brotherus, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Alec Soth, Jens Ullrich and Michael Wesely. Each artist is introduced by a brief essay, followed by four pages of their superbly reproduced work. This is a valuable and forward-looking reference book for photographers, collectors and photography lovers everywhere.
The landscape and the light, as well as the relationship to the present, changed with every kilometer that took us further south. Contrasts were clearer, the colors of fields and hedges had clarion contours, and from far away even the sky was not always just blue. Beginning with Lake Garda, Talisa Lallai defined the historic route of the Grand Tour as the starting point for her photographic research in the year 2019, well knowing that travelers from those days, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Heinrich Heine, had already been overwhelmed by the beauty and sublimity of the landscape and its parks at the very start of their Italian journeys in the north. The artist situated her work in the wake of historic travel narratives and journeyed along her route toward the south through the towns described in the literature. (Thomas Seelig)
With its presentation of ten young British artists, the Stadthaus Ulm has initiated a sequence of national and international photography exhibitions that is to carry on the photographic and cinematic tradition of the former Ulmer Hochschule für Gestaltung.The current interest in British culture is an outgrowth of the flourishing cultural activity in metropolitan centers such as London or Glasgow, which finds its expression a variety of areas, including fashion, music and the visual arts. Many of the artists introduced here have lived for many years in this cultural environment, taking inspiration for their photographic work from everyday life in these metropolitan landscapes. They represent a young generation of artists who use photography to reflect upon the mechanisms of big-city life that enable the diverse ethnic and social urban populations to live together. The issue central to all of their work is the manner in which groups and individuals relate to their environment and to one another within it.The Suky Best, Zarina Bhimji, Henry Bond, Don Brown, Martin Cole, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sophy Rickett, Helen Robertson, David Shrigley
Die Fotografie erfindet sich gerade neu. Mit der digitalen Revolution haben sich nicht nur die Aufnahmeverfahren, sondern auch die Ästhetik und die Inszenierung radikal verändert. Zu den Tafelbildern im Monumentalformat, den Fotografien hinter glatt poliertem Plexiglas oder den fein getonten Schwarzweißabzügen sind eigenwillige Präsentationsformen (räumliche Installationen, Layouts, Websites) hinzugekommen, die der Fotografie eine ganz neue Aura verleihen.
In diesem Übersichtsband werden auf je vier Bildseiten 120 junge Künstler und Fotografen vorgestellt, die in den letzten Jahren für Furore gesorgt haben. Umfangreiche Bildstrecken und aussagekräftige Texte internationaler Experten dokumentieren diese nie dagewesene Vielschichtigkeit.
Ein ausführliches Glossar der wichtigsten technischen und ästhetischen Begriffe macht die Publikation zu einem richtungsweisenden Standardwerk für interessierte Zeitgenossen, Fotografen, Sammler und Freunde der Fotografie und der zeitgenössischen Kunst.
Mit Texten von
Paolo Bianchi, Reinhard Braun, David Brittain, Florian Ebner, Erik Eelbode, Roy Exley, Felix Hoffmann, Barbara Hofmann-Johnson, Karen Irvine, Martin Jaeggi, Sarah Lewis, Jan-Erik Lundström, Nadine Olonetzky, Johan Sjöström, Rik Suermondt, Ossian Ward, Grant Watson
