The Düsseldorf School of Photography

The Düsseldorf School of Photography

Author: Stefan Gronert

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780500543566

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The Dusseldorf School is renowned around the world, and is today synonymous with high artistic standards and a highly diverse and new approach to the medium of photography. There has been no other art movement since the Bauhaus to possess such a worldwide appeal. This volume traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s.


The Düsseldorf School of Photography

The Düsseldorf School of Photography

Author: Stefan Gronert

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 3791387804

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Now reissued in an attractively priced, compact edition, this classic and authoritative survey is the first detailed account of a seminal era in photographic history. Inspired and guided by Bernd and Hiller Becher, themselves pioneers in the area of documentary photography, the artists of Germany’s Düsseldorf School not only pushed the boundaries of their teachers’ practice, but also ushered in three generations of technical and compositional achievement that is rivalled in importance only by the arrival of color photography. This book introduces readers to the historic, cultural, and scientific environments in which the Bechers’ practice thrived. It explores the teaching philosophies with which they encouraged their students, and considers the qualities that highlight the Düsseldorf School: intricate detail, large scale, painterly distance combined with an immersive quality. The plate section, organized by artist, features 160 beautifully reproduced images by Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Simone Nieweg, Jörg Sasse, and Petra Wunderlich.


Jpegs

Jpegs

Author: Thomas Ruff

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781597110938

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Thomas Ruff is among the most important international photographers to emerge in the last fifteen years, and one of the most enigmatic and prolific of Bernd and Hilla Bechers former students, a group that includes Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, and Axel Hutte. In 2007, Ruff completed his monumental Jpegs series in which he explores the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Starting with images he culls primarily from the Web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, which exaggerates the pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of Ruffs works in the series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes, and conversely, scenes of war and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterworks create an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that also actively engages the history of landscape painting. A fittingly deluxe and oversized volume, Jpegs is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the publication of Ruffs remarkable series.


Digital Image Systems

Digital Image Systems

Author: Claus Gunti

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 3839439027

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In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful to film-based technologies. By evaluating the aesthetic and discursive preconditions of this situation and by extensively analyzing the digital work of these three photographers, this book shows that the digital turn in photography was anticipated by the conceptualization of images within systems, and thus offers new perspectives for understanding the »digital revolution«.


Photography Reinvented

Photography Reinvented

Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0691172870

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Exhibition held at the National Gallery (U.S.), Washington, D.C., September 30, 2016-March 5, 2017, of a private collection of thirty-five works gathered by Meyerhoff and Becker produced by nineteen artists.


Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth

Author: Thomas Struth

Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9783829601832

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A new ed. of Struth's "Museum photographs", adding 26 additional images which include pictures of artworks at their original locations.


Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky

Author: Andreas Gursky

Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783823854708

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The first substantial monograph of Andreas Gursky's work since 1984 this series of large-format color photographs depicts vast panoramic scenes: entire cityscapes, endless horizons, multi-floored office buildings, huge factory corridors and crowded public spaces. Taken from a distance, often with a bird's eye view, they represent more than a set of photographs of various locations -- rather Gursky's work reflects both the art forms and the everyday aesthetics of 20th-century society. Many photographs are allegories, offering a cultural critique of man's role in nature, technology, art and society. Other resemble abstract paintings, in which Gursky applies a number of formal elements, such as light, composition and form, to convey a mood or subtle message. In their size and scope, in their reflective mood and social commentary, and in their many layers of meaning and interpretation, these exquisitely reproduced portraits of interior and exterior spaces display the qualities that have made Andreas Gursky one of the most respected landscape photographers of his generation.


Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff

Author: Thomas Ruff

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0847845680

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Thomas Ruff is acknowledged as a leading innovator in the generation of German artists that propelled photography into mainstream art. For more than two decades, he has pushed the limits of the photographic medium, harnessing technologies both old and new. Traditionally, photograms are made by placing objects onto photosensitive paper and exposing the paper to light, thereby recording the silhouettes of the objects. Captivated by this method but seeking to work beyond its limitations, Ruff collaborated with a 3-D imaging expert to design a virtual darkroom that would enable him to experiment with an infinite range of forms.Negatives are a direct result of Ruff’s photogram process; the white and slate-blue images are inverted versions of early-twentieth-century nude studies.


Futuro Retro

Futuro Retro

Author: Maria Svarbova

Publisher: Nhp Publishing

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9789187815584

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Following the huge success of Swimming Pool, Mária returns with a new collection of her photography in a limited edition book.