German – Bildersturm

Volker Heinze: Ahnung // plus minus null (1989, 1986)

By: Thomas Schulz 23/05/202001/06/2020

Classic, PhotobookArt, Artists' books, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Book, Color, featured, German, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, Volker HeinzeLeave a Comment

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.

Fotografieren hieß teilnehmen. Fotografinnen der Weimarer Republik ( Museum Folkwang, 1994)

By: Thomas Schulz 02/06/2019

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, documentary photography, female artist, German, landscape photography, Museum Folkwang, photohistory, Portrait Photography, staged photography, Street Photography, Weimar RepublicLeave a Comment

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.

Heidi Specker: Fotografin (Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 14/04/2019

Contemporary, Photobookarchitecture, Black and White, Color, conceptual photography, German, Heidi Specker, landscape photography, Portrait Photography, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

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.

Arwed Messmer: Berlin, 1966-70 (Hartmann Projects, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 12/03/201911/05/2019

Contemporary, Photobook1960s, Arwed Messmer, Berlin, Black and White, documentary photography, German, Hartmann Projects, Portrait Photography, public archives, Street Photography, student protestsLeave a Comment

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.

Timm Rautert: Germans in Uniform (Steidl, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 01/02/201901/02/2019

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, Color, documentary photography, German, Identity, Portrait Photography, post-war era, Society, Studio Photography, Timm Rautert, UniformsLeave a Comment

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.

Thomas Demand: The Complete Papers (Mack, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 27/12/2018

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, Color, German, interior photography, large-scale photographs, Paper works, photo history, staged photography, Thomas DemandLeave a Comment

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.

Annette Kelm: Leaves (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ,2017)

By: Thomas Schulz 07/08/201803/07/2020

Contemporary, PhotobookAnnette Kelm, Color, conceptual photography, Flowers, German, Landscape, object photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, still lifeLeave a Comment

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Annette Kelm at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (11 March – 7 May 2017).

Axel Hütte: Terra Incognita (Schirmer/Mosel, 2004)

By: Thomas Schulz 05/07/201814/05/2019

Contemporary, Photobookarchitecture, Axel Hütte, Black and White, Color, German, Landscape, Portrait Photography, TopographyLeave a Comment

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.

Julia Baier: Sentō 銭湯 (Peperoni Books, 2008)

By: Thomas Schulz 25/03/201811/05/2018

Contemporary, PhotobookBeauty, Black and White, documentary photography, 銭湯, German, Identity, Japanese bath house, Japanese culture, Julia Baier, Portrait Photography, public space, SentōLeave a Comment

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.

Fotofobia #7: Anno Dittmer / Flashbacks 1981 – 1988 West-Berlin (Fotofobia, 2015)

By: Thomas Schulz 20/03/201824/05/2019

Classic, PhotozineAnno Dittmer, Berlin, Black and White, Fotofobia, German, Identity, Portrait Photography, Punk, Street Photography, SubcultureLeave a Comment

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.

Rudi Meisel: Landsleute 1977 – 1987 Two Germanys (Kehrer Verlag, 2015)

By: Thomas Schulz 18/03/201811/05/2018

Classic, Photobook1977-1987, architecture, Berlin, Black and White, documentary photography, FRG, GDR, German, Identity, Landscape, Portrait Photography, Rudi Meisel, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

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.

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Hrsg.): Vom Bauhaus zum Bildjournalismus: Umbo (1995)

By: Thomas Schulz 14/03/201811/05/2018

Classic, PhotobookBauhaus, Beauty, Berlin, Black and White, documentary photography, German, Otto Maximilian Umbehr, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, UmboLeave a Comment

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.