Volker Heinze (* 1959 in Duisburg) is a German photographer for whom the book is the primary medium; he explores his visual ideas in book form before installing his work in the gallery or museum.
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Fotografieren hieß teilnehmen. Fotografinnen der Weimarer Republik ( Museum Folkwang, 1994)
This volume was issued for an exhibition of female photographers of the Weimar Republic which was shown at the Museum Folkwang (Essen), Fundacio La Caixa (Barcelona) and The Jewish Museum (NYC), in 1994-1995.
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Heidi Specker: Fotografin (Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2018)
The catalog accompanying the exhibition in Kunstmuseum Bonn offers the first comprehensive survey of Heidi Specker’s work and assembles important bodies of work from the last 20 years.
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Arwed Messmer: Berlin, 1966-70 (Hartmann Projects, 2018)
For some years now German photographer Arwed Messmer (born 1964) has been working with photographs of recent historical events that he usually finds in state archives. All of these projects focus on events in recent German history.
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Timm Rautert: Germans in Uniform (Steidl, 2018)
German photographer Timm Rautert’s (born 1941) series Germans in Uniform from 1974 presenting a range of Germans in their professional attire is now available in English in this expanded version.
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Thomas Demand: The Complete Papers (Mack, 2018)
Thomas Demand (born 1964) is a sculptor and photographer. He creates large-scale photographs that probe the relationship between reproduction and original. Trained as a sculptor, the German artist reconstructs media images of complex interior scenes using ephemeral materials like paper and cardboard.
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Annette Kelm: Leaves (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ,2017)
This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Annette Kelm at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (11 March – 7 May 2017).
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Axel Hütte: Terra Incognita (Schirmer/Mosel, 2004)
Published on the occasion of the major 2004 retrospective exhibition, Axel Hütte: Terra Incognita, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. The catalogue covers key works from 1982-2003, including his portrait typologies.
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Julia Baier: Sentō 銭湯 (Peperoni Books, 2008)
In the summer of 2005 Julia Baier first discovered the Japanese culture of bathing and out of this experience grew the publication – Sentō 銭湯 – the Japanese Bath-house.
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Fotofobia #7: Anno Dittmer / Flashbacks 1981 – 1988 West-Berlin (Fotofobia, 2015)
The walled-in West Berlin of the eighties was a melting pot of punk, post-punk and neo-Dada, new experimental music and performance art. And there in the midst of it is Anno Dittmer, clicking away with his camera.
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Rudi Meisel: Landsleute 1977 – 1987 Two Germanys (Kehrer Verlag, 2015)
Rudi Meisel, born in 1949 in Wilhelmshaven and raised in Osnabrück, studied photography in the class of Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule Essen and in 1975 founded the group collective of photographers VISUM , together with André Gelpke and Gerd Ludwig.
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Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Hrsg.): Vom Bauhaus zum Bildjournalismus: Umbo (1995)
He is one of the most important photographers of Bauhaus and modernism, but first found his creative medium after completing his studies at the school of design: Otto Maximilian Umbehr, also known as Umbo.
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