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99 Photographs (Hardcover)
Peter Pfrunder, Teresa Gruber; Text written by Madleina Deplazes, Lea Fuhrer, Teresa Gruber, …
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A doomed painter on his last walk, a barefoot girl in front of a
school blackboard, a charismatic politician as an advocate for the
simple life: 99 Photographs presents images that touch, seduce or
confuse. Since 1971 the Fotostiftung Schweiz has been collecting
archives of photographers and outstanding works of photographic
history. Now its 50th anniversary gives rise to a curated look at
this collection - an invitation to discover the rich language of
photography and to see the world through different eyes. Well-known
icons stand next to unknown trouvailles, pioneers of color
photography next to Netcam photographers. The short accompanying
texts point to a reality that lies behind the facts and beneath the
surface. Ninety-nine times, editor Peter Pfrunder stops time to
look inward and outward at once - until the invisible emerges in
the visible and images turn out to be a wondrous mixture of facts
and fantasies.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Zurich's youth was rebellious.
An entire generation of students was in search for the 'new'. In
1981, photographic artist Simone Kappeler left her native
Switzerland, setting off on a road trip across America. She took
with her a Hasselblad, a 35 mm camera, as well as a Polaroid. Over
the course of the journey, she would add a multitude of cheap
cameras to this collection that enabled snapshot-like images -
taken unselfconsciously whenever a motif sprang at her. The images
reflect a direct and unrestrained manner, they tell of immediate
sensual experience and the longing for freedom and independence.
Thirty-five years later, Kappeler has revisited the vast collection
that resulted from her undertaking. The selection of some 230
images and their composition reveal a consistent artistic
perspective and a signature style. And even today, her 1981 view of
America has lost none of its magic. Text in English and German.
Transformation processes are the focus of Georg Aerni's new
photographs. The Swiss photographer and artist shows plastic
greenhouses that have annexed whole swathes of land for
agricultural mass production, residential houses that have been
built overnight on the city outskirts without construction machines
and literally noiselessly. He points his lens at olive trees that
have grown over centuries into figures full of character, at
creepers that conquer leftover spaces between high-rises and
motorways, and at mighty rock faces that are being gnawed by
erosion. With the merging of art and documentation that is typical
of Aerni's work, Georg Aerni-Silent Transition makes the signs of
change the object of a contemplative observation and at the same
time asks challenging questions: about our handling of natural
resources, about the social backgrounds to cities growing out of
control, about the regenerative force of nature. A decade after
Aerni's first monograph, Sites & Signs, this new book showcases
the artist's ongoing continuation of his photographic work through
numerous individual images as well as new series. 166 beautiful
colour and black-and-white plates are introduced through texts by
Peter Pfrunder and Nadine Olonetzky and commented on with an essay
by Sabine von Fischer. Text in English and German.
Switzerland's image has been significantly shaped by photographs
dedicated to tourism. Through spectacular mountain panoramas,
snapshots of rural idylls, or portraits of local people, the
country could be successfully marketed, and these photographs also
made an important contribution to- ward national identity. Another
consequence, however, was that the respective pictorial repertoire
became inflated and stereotyped. For this publication and for an
exhibition of the same name opening in 2017, five internationally
renowned photographers were invited to scrutinize Switzerland in
their capacity as independent, subjective, and sensitive
observers-unrestricted by any advertising commission. What Alinka
Echeverri a (Mexiko/UK), Shane Lavalette (USA), Eva Leitolf
(Germany), Simon Roberts (UK), and Zhang Xiao (China) discovered on
their travels around the country or along its borders is both
inspiring and revealing. Their exciting, poetic, or
mysterious-enigmatic im- ages invite viewers to see the familiar
with the eyes of an outsider.6 booklets in a slipcase
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