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CHRISTIAN WACHTER

Obergrenze (Fuga)

In the wake of what has been referred to since the summer of 2015 as the refugee crisis, the term “upper limit” was introduced into the Austrian domestic political debate as both a theoretical and factual notion. Austrian photographer Christian Wachter’s new artist’s book moves silently through loosely edited color photographs of European Christian churches alongside flocks of birds and atmospheric tracings in the Algerian skies. There are no texts or artist comments, just the quiet sequencing allowing a very personal conversation to begin. In his new work, Wachter wonders whether “in the dispute over the right of asylum it might not be better to relate that upper limit to top incomes and assets?” Also embraced in the concept of the book is a network of formal levels of meaning, referencing on the one hand the contrapuntal music form of the fugue (Lat. fuga—i.e., flight, running away), and on the other, widespread fears relating to differences in religious beliefs and cultures.

FOTOHOF EDITIONS, AUSTRIA
February 2017 / German only / Hardcover
6 ⅔ x 9 ¾ in. / 103 pp / 70 color
ISBN: 978-3-902993-34-2 · Retail Price: $35.00

CATHERINE WAGNER

In Situ, Traces of Morandi

Giusi Vecchi (Ed.)

In In Situ, Traces of Morandi, American contemporary photographer Catherine Wagner (b. 1953) considers the poetry and austere structural logic of Giorgio Morandi’s still-life paintings in a new body of work. Following a two-year residency at Casa Morandi, Wagner’s reflections inspired by the assorted objects, drawings and ephemera in Morandi’s studio were presented at Museum of Modern Art, Bologna / Museo Morandi (2017), accompanied by this elegant and fully illustrated catalog. In her work, Wagner constructs new still lives from Morandi’s objects, shifting notions of light, space and form in her vaporous images in which solid objects appear elusive or caught in the aura at the edge of a shadow. Sampling the color palette in Morandi’s exquisite and subtle paintings, Wagner creates intimate color fields. A conversation between the artist and curator Giusi Vecchi provides insight into Wagner’s long career. An essay by Peter Benson Miller, director of the American Academy in Rome, reflects on the work of both artists.

INSTITUZIONE BOLOGNA MUSEI, BOLOGNA
MAMBO, BOLOGNA
July 2017 / Exhibition catalog
English & Italian / Hardcover
12 ¾ x 9 ½ x in. / 120 pp
4 b&w and 66 color
ISBN: 978-88-96296-17-2 · Retail Price: $65.00

Washington, D.C.

Eakins Press Foundation, New York
1973 / Paper foldout / 6 x 6 inches / 8 pp
No ISBN · Retail Price: $9.95

WATW – WE ARE THE WORLD

Photography from China and the Netherlands

This far-ranging exhibition catalog combines the works of Chinese and Dutch artists looking at our consumption-driven world. The traveling exhibition (which includes a website) appeared in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, covering a vast variety of topics ranging from economic growth to the environment, from energy production to capital flows, from migration to consumption. In our globalized world, all these phenomena are linked and we have a trans-national, shared responsibility to cope with them. Although WATW is not overtly political, the montage of the artists’ works and projected info-graphics provide realtime data such as how many days are left until the end of oil, or the world’s daily CO2 emissions. An ambitious book about an ambitious – and vital – project. Featured artists include Jin Jiangbo, Song Chao, Zhao Liang, Jacqueline Hassink, Frank van der Salm, Ad van Denderen besides many more. Essays by Stephanie Tung, Tsai Meng, Bas Vroege, Louise O. Fresco and Menno van der Veen.

Post Editions, The Netherlands
2010 / English & Chinese / Exhibition catalog
Softcover / 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches / 284 pp / 120 color
ISBN: 978-94-6083-020-4 · Retail Price: $49.95

Harry Weber

The Vienna Project

Fotohof Editions, Austria
2008 / Exhibition catalog / English & German
Hardcover / 9 x 11 inches / 400 pp / extensive color
ISBN: 978-3-901756-89-4 · Retail Price: $49.95

Werner Schnelle

Photographs

Imagine pure form captured as light on paper – it’s almost indescribable, yet those are the photograms of Austrian photographer Werner Schnelle. In this book’s high-quality, large-format duplex prints, the viewer can appreciate the detail and subtlety of Schnelle’s contact prints and process engravings that conjure up the Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy and the “Construct” movement in Europe. Insightful commentaries by Margit Zuckriegl and Kurt Kaindl provide an insight into a photographic approach which has been embraced by only a small group of fine art photographers.

Fotohof Editions, Austria
January 2010 / Hardcover / 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches
267 pp / 200 b/w and color
ISBN: 978-3-902675-26-2 · Retail Price: $49.95

HENK WILDSCHUT

Shelter

In Henk Wildschut’s powerful new book, he uses makeshift shelters to document the lives of migrants – whether they’re known as refugees, asylum-seekers or illegal immigrants – who have traveled many miles to Europe but whose journey is still unfinished. Wildschut’s photos show the remarkably inventive encampments built of waste materials in which these travelers exist, capturing the way in which this basic necessity of life shows the underlying story of violence, fear, political manipulation, desire, courage, sadness and anxiety. In focusing on the individuality of these dwellings – an incongruously colorful quilt, a plastic tent in a field of snow – Wildschut allows viewers to see these lives vividly, to transcend what he calls “the platitude of photography.” Full-color photos, a rich essay and a beautiful fold-out cover.

POST EDITIONS, THE NETHERLANDS
2011 / Softcover / 9.5 x 13.5 inches / 112 pp / 50 color
ISBN: 978-94-6083-034-1 · Retail Price: $49.95

HENK WILDSCHUT

Food

In today’s culture of obsession with “organic,” “biodynamic,” and “fair trade,” what does the food landscape actually look like? Chosen for the 15th edition of Document Nederland, a joint award by the Rijksmuseum and NRC Handelsblad newspaper that asks photographers to highlight a current social phenomenon, Henk Wildschut set out to understand contemporary food production in the Netherlands. He immersed himself in modern farming, vegetable breeders and cultivators, stock farms, hatcheries, fish farms, laboratories, inspection bodies and suppliers of abattoir equipment. Theirs is a squeaky-clean realm in which the world of Food is often a far cry from food itself. Already hailed by Martin Parr as one of the best photo books of the year, Food is a must-have for all devoted photo book collectors. The accompanying catalog to the Rijksmuseum exhibition and a follow-up to Wildschut’s acclaimed book Shelter (2011).

POST EDITIONS, THE NETHERLANDS
2014 / Exhibition catalog
Hardcover / 9 1/2 x 11 inches
144 pp / 90 color
ISBN: 978-94-6083-074-7 · Retail Price: $65.00

JEAN WILLI

Steingesichter

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of perceiving things that don’t exist in inanimate objects, such as human faces on the moon or animal heads in rocks. Over the years, the Swiss painter and writer Jean Willi (b. 1945) has photographed rocks that appear to have faces, discovering a realm of stone apparently teeming with petrified “souls.” Often it’s just the sunlight tracing patterns on the rock or only two dark spots like eyes, which the viewer fashions into a face in his or her mind’s eye. Underlying Willi’s photographic record of this phenomenon is a questioning of our so-called reality: what do we actually perceive and what do we unconsciously alter to form into something familiar? Many of the faces in Steingesichter seem so real that it’s hard to believe their features are drawn only by nature and the play of light with no rearranging of rocks or photographic retouching.

EDITION PATRICK FREY, ZÜRICH
May 2017 / English & German / Softcover
8 ½ x 5 ¾ in. / 208 pp / 98 color
ISBN: 978-3-906803-34-0 · Retail Price: $40.00

WITH DIFFERENT EYES

The Portrait in Contemporary Photography

Gabriele Conrath-Scholl & Stephan Berg (Eds.)

Contemporary portrait photography is a great forum for reinvention. With Different Eyes presents a wide range of aesthetic approaches to photographic portraiture ranging from documentary to staged to abstract. Curators Gabriele Conrath-Scholl and Gefan Gronert from Kunstmuseum, Bonn, and SK Kulturstiftung, Cologne, respectively, have selected almost 300 portraits from their collections for this hefty exhibition catalog. From SK, portraits by international artists with a conceptual or stylistic connection to their August Sander holdings complement the historic and contemporary photographs, focusing on portraiture in Germany 1990 to the present, from the Kunstmuseum. Artists represented include Ute Behrend, Annette Kelm, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Charles Frèger, Pepa Hristova, Hiroh Kikai, Albrecht Tübke, Diane Arbus, Jim Dine, Francesco Neri, Judith Joy Ross, Thomas Ruff, August Sander, Rosalind Solomon, Peter Hugo, Katja Stuke, Christopher Williams, Bernhard Fuchs, Jitka Hanzlova, Katharine Bosse, Clegg and Guttmann and others. A fascinating look at the evolution of photographic portraiture over almost a century of time.

SNOECK, GERMANY
SK KULTURSTIFTUNG, COLOGNE
KUNSTMUSEUM BONN, GERMANY
May 2016 / English & German / Exhibition catalog / Softcover
8 ½ x 11 ¾ inches / 352 pp / 280 color
ISBN: 978-3-86442-158-7 · Retail Price: $55.00