staged photography – Bildersturm

Vasantha Yogananthan and his project A Myth of Two Souls (2013-ongoing)

By: Thomas Schulz 5 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

Contemporary, PhotobookBlack and White, chose commune, Color, featured, India, landscape photography, Portrait Photography, staged photography, Street Photography, The Ramayana, Vasantha YogananthanLeave a Comment

Born in 1985, Vasantha Yogananthan lives and works in Paris. His photographic practice addresses the space between documentary and fiction.
A Myth of Two Souls will be published in seven photobooks between 2016-2020, one per chapter of the epic.

Sonia Voss: Les libertés intérieures, Photographie est-allemande (1980-1989) (Éditions Xavier Barral, 2019)

By: Thomas Schulz 1 Jul 20191 Jul 2019

Contemporary, PhotobookBlack and White, catalogue, documentary photography, East Germany, Editions Xavier Barral, fashion photography, featured, Portrait Photography, Rencontres d’Arles, staged photography, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what do we know about East-German photography? Resulting from several years of research led by Sonia Voss in Berlin and several other cities of former G.D.R., this publication presents the work of 16 photographers.

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

By: Thomas Schulz 2 Jun 2019

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, documentary photography, female photography, 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.

Talia Chetrit: Showcaller (Mack, 2019)

By: Thomas Schulz 27 May 201928 May 2019

Contemporary, PhotobookAmerican, Beauty, Black and White, body, Color, Identity, intimacy, New York, Portrait Photography, Selfie Culture, staged photography, Street Photography, Talia Chetrit, womenLeave a Comment

Showcaller is the first monograph of New York-based artist Talia Chetrit (born 1982, Washington D.C.). Her work includes self-portraits, portraits of family members, lovers, and friends, nudes, still lifes, and cityscapes.

Thomas Demand: The Complete Papers (Mack, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 27 Dec 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.

Jojakim Cortis; Adrian Sonderegger: Double Take (Lars Müller Publishers, 2018)

By: Thomas Schulz 23 Oct 2018

Contemporary, PhotobookAdrian Sonderegger, Black and White, Color, cultural icons, Jojakim Cortis, Landscape, model making, photo history, staged photography, Street Photography, TopographyLeave a Comment

Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger are Swiss artists who began their collaboration in 2005, focusing their artistic practice on conceiving and manufacturing surreal worlds in compositions of “staged” photography.