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Hans Hansen – Sachfotografie
The work of this influential photographer and admired specialist in "Sachfotografie" (object photography) is being celebrated in shows in German museums during 2001/2002. This publication records all...
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Dieter Appelt Forth Bridge
In the 1970s, German photographer and filmmaker Dieter Appelt first saw the Forth Rail Bridge, built in 1890 to cross the River Forth in Scotland. The spectacular cantilevered steel span, a marvel of...
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The Reading of Time in the Text of Nature
Klaus Merkel’s coupled photographs mirror the physical and spiritual patterns of both natural and architectural structures. They demonstrate fundamental and universal formal laws in their compelling...
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Album of Stones
The photographer and artist Klaus Merkel searches for — and record in striking black-and-white photographs — structures in nature and architecture that, no matter where they are, exhibit overlapping...
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Photographer
Jean-Pascal Imsand’s work eludes any attempt at classification, and contains an apparent paradox. While his photo-montages are much admired for their aesthetic and narrative qualities, yet are...
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Chaviolas
Over a period of twenty years, the artist Barbara Heé has photographed Lake Silser and Chaviolas Island again and again. The resulting panoramas present a subtle portrait of this mountainous landscape...
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Poste mon amour
The post office – for those who live in Switzerland a treasured and ubiquitous feature of daily life – has developed in the cities into a complex service center, while in the country it has often...
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Reset – Beyond Fukushima
Ever since the first days following the disastrous events that took place in Japan in March 2011, photojournalist Kazuma Obara has been visiting the sites and the people affected. He even visited the...
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Snow
In Thomas Flechtner’s photographs, snow becomes a metaphor for timelessness, stillness, peace, distance, and loneliness. Both civilization and the untouched countryside succumb to the gentle weight of...
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Pour Le Corbusier
In 1962 the young photographer René Burri, on the staff of the renowned photo agency MAGNUM, and known for his reportage and portraits, presented the architect, Le Corbusier, with a fold-out book, made...
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«Klick!» sagte die Kamera
The animals have come to be photographed for a beauty contest. Markus Jakob tells the tale of these illustrious rendezvous. The protagonist of the story is the timid donkey. In Balthasar Burkard’s...
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Brasilia – Chandigarh
In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising...
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Blindhædir
Silvia Bächli and Eric Hattan spent four months, from March to June, in Seydisfjördur in eastern Iceland. The landscape they explored on their daily walks is dominated by snow, which shapes the...
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Protokoll
Over a period of three years the photographer Christian Lutz accompanied a member of the Swiss Federal Council on diverse official occasions throughout the world. In Protokoll he observes the...
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Landfall
Lukas Felzmann’s Landfall is far more than just a compilation of strong single images. Roads that peter out in the middle of nowhere, buildings that no long make sense, flotsam and jetsam that defy...
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From Somewhere to Nowhere
High-population centers of enormous size are springing up in China with dizzying speed. With them comes an increased demand for migrant workers in the construction sector, factories, and mines. In...
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East of a New Eden
Europe’s new eastern borders stretch from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea: 1.600 heavily guarded kilometers between former “fraternal countries.” The photographers Yann Mingard and Alban Kakulya spent...
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Temporary Discomfort
Jules Spinatsch was at the World Economic and also attended the G8 summits at Davos and Evian. But rather than street fighting and handshakes, Jules Spinatsch shows winter nights in Davos, complete...
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Annelies Štrba — Shades of Time
Annelies Štrba has taken the lead in recent European photography. Her photography materializes the art of perception. Pictures of her home and family keep a highly idiosyncratic record of memories,...
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Swarm
“The buzz word is swarm intelligence, which has acquired an unforeseen reality in the era of Facebook and Twitter. The behavior of a collective without a center has become a social phenomenon, which is...
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Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present
Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present offers a new overview of the history of Swiss photography. The focus is on seventy selected photobooks, from classics to long-forgotten publications or...
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Dan Graham's New Jersey
Dan Graham, one of North America’s most important contemporary artists, is best known today for his sculptural works and installations. His photographic works are generally not so well known, despite...
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News
News represents a further development of the much-acclaimed work of artist Thomas Flechtner. Whereas in Snow he looked at snow as a metaphor for timelessness, calm, distance, and loneliness, and in...
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Tropical Gift
Christian Lutz continues his photographic study of power structures with “Tropical Gift”. He took portraits in Nigeria of people who live by and with the economic force that dominates everything there,...
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Photosuisse
Published in collaboration with Swiss Televison (SRG SSR idée suisse).With essays by Peter Pfrunder und Michail Shishkin Switzerland has world-class photographers in Robert Frank, Werner Bischof and...
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The Dolder Grand
In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrated its first birthday since reopening, following a four-year remodelling carried out according to plans by Foster+Partners. The photographers from the Zurich studio...
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Waters in Between
The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some driving past would find boring, flat, and disconsolate: the vast Sacramento Valley, located just a hundred miles from San...
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In Wildwood
Forests, according to folklore, are places of mystery and fear the haunts of fierce animals and fiercer men. Yet for our ancestors the forests were sources of food and fuel, managed spaces. The forest...
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It was always there, it's just grown stronger
Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost...
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Futebol
In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit or cans;...
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Inside CERN
For most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology remain hidden from view. CERN, the European Organization...
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LC FOTO: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer
In Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect’s use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s attempts to take professional photographs...
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Trees like Stones
For over thirty years Klaus Merkel has been photo- graphing stones, rocky landscapes, and trees that he combines in pairs of images. He portrays the astounding harmony between the animate and the...
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Trilogy of Stone and Time
All three publications by Klaus Merkel–The Reading of Time in the Text of Nature, Album of Stones and Trees like Stones–are available in the exclusive Trilogy of Stones and Time. Presented in a premium...
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The Colors of Growth
China’s spectacular growth has brought not just prosperity, but also serious damage to the environment. For photographer Andreas Seibert, the present state of the Huai River is a clear example of these...
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White Garden
Paradoxe Raumanordnungen, fiktive Architekturen, suggestive Räume. Bernard Voïtas Fotografien sind Arbeiten eines Plastikers, der den dreidimensionalen Raum und seine zweidimensionale Darstellung...
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Kolkata – Calcutta
Like his previous publications, photographer Patrick Faigenbaum’s new book is dedicated to a specific terrain: the Bengali metropolis of Kolkata, which bore the name of Calcutta during its time as a...
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Gull Juju
The Farallon Islands in the Pacific Ocean are often called “California’s Galapagos” and are home to one of the world’s largest colonies of nesting seabirds. It’s hard to imagine a better setting for...
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Bloom
With Bloom, Thomas Flechtner continues to go his own way as an artist. In his internationally acclaimed debut publication Snow, he took viewers by surprise with a compelling visual metaphysics of snow...
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Hamsun, Holl, Hamarøy
Steven Holl has set up a documentation centre for the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859 –1952) on Hamarøy, in northern Norway. This unconventional building reflects the author's no less unusual...
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What You See
Anonymous snapshots are the ideal projection screen: they inspire the imagination to invent stories. The photographer and artist Luciano Rigolini demonstrates, however, that these images, freed from...
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Liminal Spaces
Polish-born photographer Jurek Wajdowicz’s new art book luxuriates the viewer with both saturated and minimalist images that float between abstraction and reality of both the perceived and the...
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Noonday limited edition
The artist Annelies Štrba, best known for photographs of her children, now brings us in Noonday pictures of her grandchildren. In this “noonday dream” (a reference to Emily Brontë), we encounter a host...
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Desert of Pharan
Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city’s origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site’s recent transformation—Mecca, until recently,...
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