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...
View ArticleDan 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...
View ArticleNews
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...
View ArticleTropical 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,...
View ArticlePhotosuisse
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWaters 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleFutebol
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;...
View ArticleInside 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...
View ArticleLC 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...
View ArticleTrees 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...
View ArticleTrilogy 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhite Garden
Paradoxe Raumanordnungen, fiktive Architekturen, suggestive Räume. Bernard Voïtas Fotografien sind Arbeiten eines Plastikers, der den dreidimensionalen Raum und seine zweidimensionale Darstellung...
View ArticleKolkata – 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...
View ArticleGull 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...
View ArticleBloom
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...
View ArticleHamsun, 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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