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Dear Readers, Following the summer break, we are delighted to present you with issue 003 of Fotoii Magazine. In this issue we talk about the festival www.images.ch, which will be opening its doors on 13 September. For the occasion, the town of Vevey will be presenting the works of over 50 photographers to the public for a three-week period. Since our first issue, we have also continued to rework our core content, selection of portfolios and portfolio concept. This issue is the fruits of this labour bringing you the following four photographers: s 4HE 3WISS PHOTOGRAPHER !NDR� -ELCHIOR WHO WILL SOON BE CELEBRATING HIS TH BIRTHDAY )N HIS WORK -ETAMORPHOSIS !NDR� -ELCHIOR MANIFESTS A TRANSFORMATION LIKE A COCOON WHICH BECOMES A butterfly. He has also taken a plunge into the digital world and thus guides us through a world where form, colour and light make us dream. s 4HE 3WISS PHOTOGRAPHER 0IA 'RIMBà HLER WHOSE ARRESTING SERIES &OLLOW THE 2ABBIT EXPLORES the contradictory nature of man’s attitude towards animals. Her photographs capture this dualism by presenting us with scenes which are at once disturbing and delicate, and which may be understood in THE CONTEXT OF 0IA S EXPERIENCE AS A FOOD PHOTOGRAPHER s 4HE "RITISH PHOTOGRAPHER -ANDY "ARKER WHOSE WORK ENTICES WITH ITS UNWORLDLY BEAUTY ONLY to unsettle with the alarming reality of its subject matter - the plastic debris that pollutes the world’s oceans. s !ND THE 'ERMAN BORN "EIJING BASED PHOTOGRAPHER +ATHARINA (ESSE WHOSE WORK FOCUSES ON #HINA S SOCIAL CONCERNS PRIMARILY YOUTH AND URBAN CULTURE RELIGION AND THE PLIGHT OF .ORTH +OREAN REFUGEES (ER BACKSTAGE IMAGES OF A 'UO 0EI FASHION SHOW ALSO PROVIDE A GLIMPSE INTO A CORNER OF #HINA S emerging consumer culture. Wishing you happy reading as we guide you through a discovery of these talented photographers.
Yours sincerely,
-ARCEL "ONER
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Pia Grimbühler Follow the Rabbit. Francesca Wilkins
With her compelling - and mildly unsett-
Alice in Wonderland - a reference emphasised in
ling - series, Follow the Rabbit, photographer Pia
the work’s title - there’s something fairly upsetting
Grimbühler addresses what she describes as the
about a naked and attractive young woman juxta-
discrepancy between two different attitudes we
posed with the unavoidably gory act of a small and
human beings manifest towards animals. On the
docile animal being butchered. In the background
one hand, the majority of people feel a profound
lie ghostly images of the model, her body lifeless,
and instinctive affection towards domestic pets and
mirroring that of the rabbit. It is clear that Pia has
other “cute” animals. On the other hand, it’s perfect-
selected and positioned each element thoughtfully,
ly commonplace for us to enjoy eating animal meat
so that the resulting photographs appear polished
as part of our everyday diet. At the centre of this
and quasi-minimalistic.
personal work lies the photographer’s fascination
Pia Grimbühler’s images lie somewhere
with the cultural phenomenon by which, in her own
between fashion and food photography - the latter
words, “what we love becomes our food”.
in fact happens to be one of her areas of expertise
Follow the Rabbit perfectly captures this
- and as a result of this stylistic language, characte-
duality as a young woman stares sweetly into the
rised by the bold contrast of the vivid red of freshly
camera, cradling a dead rabbit; and then proceeds
spilt blood with the pale background and model’s
to the skinning, gutting, cutting up and finally eating
chalky white skin, it almost feels as though we’re
of the unfortunate animal, in a sequence of images
watching a performance piece.
which unfolds in a narrative. While the association of a female figure and a rabbit inevitably brings to mind scenes from
Pia Grimbühler’s arresting series, Follow the Rabbit, explores the contradictory nature of man’s attitude towards animals. Her photographs capture this dualism by presenting us with a scene which is both disturbing yet somehow delicate, and can be interpreted as being directly related to her experience as a food photographer.
Follow the Rabbit Edition of 5 - Polyptych of 5 photographies 70 x 70 cm Production: c-print on aluminium
Mandy Barker Something Rich and Strange – and Lethal. Nancy Brokaw
At first glance, Mandy Barker’s photographs could be taken
per square mile)—that never biodegrade. Rather, they break down
for deep-sea creatures, afloat in waters where light no longer pene-
into smaller and smaller pieces that birds and sea creatures mistake
trates. Their vivid hues—royal blue and deep rose—pop against the
for dinner. Lethal though these fragments may be, they are transformed
inky blackness. Or they could be pictures snatched from outer space by the
by Barker’s camera into something rich and strange: The toy rem-
Hubble Space Telescope: an image of a spiral galaxy millions of light
nants in Turtle—mostly turtles with some ducks, beavers, and frogs
years away from Earth or of the constellation Fornax with galaxies
thrown in for good measure—resemble lapis asteroids afloat in an
that existed just after the Big Bang.
infinite blackness, while the plastic industrial pellets, called nurdles,
In fact, they are pictures of trash, specifically the plastic debris that has made its way into the world’s oceans.
in Nurdle spin like the Andromeda galaxy. The plastic shards in Burnt look for all the world like deep-
For the past several years, Barker has been collecting, and photo-
sea marine creatures trailing strange appendages. In two images
graphing, debris collected from beaches around the globe. Her first
composed of jetsam collected from another debris field created in
series, called Soup, was inspired by the largest garbage dump in the
the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami, plastic bags and a child’s toy gun
world, a mass accumulation of litter in the Pacific Ocean. Known as
made in Japan swoop like schools of fishes in the deep ocean or
the Garbage Patch, this floating scrapheap consists of tiny bits of
flocks of birds in the night sky.
plastic—in the range of 750,000 bits per square kilometer (1.9 million
British photographer Mandy Barker’s work attracts with its unworldly beauty, only to unsettle with the alarming reality of its subject matter: the plastic debris that pollutes the world’s oceans.
1_ SOUP: Turtle Edition of 25 –107 x152.5cm Edition of 25 – 73 x100cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
4_ SOUP: Translucent Edition of 25 –107 x152.5cm Edition of 25 – 73 x 100cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
7_ SHOAL 30.15N, 158.51E Edition of 12 – 84 x118cm Edition of 8 – 100x144cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
2_ SOUP: Burnt Edition of 25 –107 x152.5cm Edition of 25 – 73 x100cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
5_ SHOAL 30.27N, 163.28E Edition of 12 – 84 x118cm Edition of 8 – 100 x144cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
8_ EVERY… snowflake is different Edition of 25 – 107 x152.5cm Edition of 25 – 73 x100cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
3_SOUP: Nurdle Edition of 25 –107 x152.5cm Edition of 25 – 73 x 100cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
6_ SHOAL 30.04N, 168.10E Edition of 12 – 84 x118cm Edition of 8 – 100 x144cm C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
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André Melchior Metamorphose. Noelle Paulson
The photographer André Melchior
the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In his analogue
in the series, simultaneously evokes blinding
may have just celebrated his 88th birthday,
photographs, Melchior obtained an elegant
sunshine through tree branches on the left
but his latest photographs prove that one
balance between spontaneity of experience
half of the central mandorla shape and trees
is never too old to explore new directions.
and deliberately designed compositions.
reflected in a puddle of rainwater on the
Melchior’s career as a professional photo-
These aspects remain visible in Melchior’s
right half. With their shared emphasis on the
grapher spans nearly 80 years. As a young
art today, even though since the 1990s he
depiction of motion in a still image, the care-
apprentice, he made a name for himself
has turned to abstract digital photography.
fully constructed compositions of “Tempest”
when he captured an iconic shot of Winston
As the series shown here demons-
and “Racing” recall the paintings of the Italian
Churchill on the steps of Zurich’s City Hall
trates, Melchior now finds inspiration in
Futurists. Nevertheless, a sense of quiet still-
in 1946. For much of his career, people,
reflective materials shown from close-up
ness pervades Melchior’s abstract photogra-
their professions, their activities, and their
vantage points. From this perspective, water,
phs, resulting in works that are reflective in
creations were his primary subjects – from
ice, and glass evoke hidden landscapes. Mel-
both senses of the word. By taking the time
post-World War II refugees to workers,
chior has given the photographs titles like
to look closely through his lens, Melchior has
from tools and machinery to high rises and
“Weeping Clouds” or “Furnace,” which sug-
offered up a collection of jewel-like images
modern architecture. Melchior also travel-
gest what they might mean for him, but the
that reveals a youthful sense of creative
led throughout Europe and northern Africa,
viewer is also free to discover his or her own
playfulness paired with the experienced eye
and his travel photographs were published
images within these abstract forms and bril-
of a master photographer.
by the internationally respected newspaper
liant colors. “Lens,” one of the earliest works
“Metamorphosis stands for my new photographic direction,” says André Melchior, “similar to a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.” The 88-year-old retired photojournalist’s abstract images of reflections reveal hidden worlds of form, color, and light.
1_ Lens 1998 Ink Jet Editon of 9 Hahnemühle Baryta Fine Art 34,5 x 51,5 cm
3_ Tempest 2010 Ink Jet Edition of 9 Hahnemühle Baryta Fine Art 34,5 x 51,5 cm
5_ Green Infinity 2002 Ink Jet Edition 5 Canon Baryta 50 x 75cm
2_ Weeping Clouds 2000 Ink Jet Edition of 5 Canon Baryta 50 x 75cm
4_ Furnance 2O13 Ink Jet Edition of 5 Canon Baryta 52,5 x 75cm
6_ Racing 2012 Ink Jet Edition of 9 Hahnemühle Baryta 35,7 x 47,5cm
7_ Deep Sea 2013 Ink Jet Edition of 9 Hahnemühle Baryta 35,7 x 47,5cm
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Katharina Hesse Fashion Week Beijing. Nancy Brokaw
In her Back Stage (Guo Pei) series,
has changed. More and more people can
one of Guo Pei’s dresses—an extravaganza
Katharina Hesse depicts the behind-the-
afford to buy luxury products, and Chinese
made entirely of golden panels—took 50,000
scenes drama of the runway: models waiting
women, at least those who have the means,
hours to complete. It’s the kind of crafts-
backstage, having their make-up applied,
are following international fashion trends.
manship that once made the Paris houses
submitting to last-minute fittings. These
What distinguishes Guo Pei from
famous—and is falling victim to the pressures
moments could be taking place backstage at
her peers—both in China and Paris—are the
of the bottom line. Today, it survives, unfette-
Fashion Week in Paris, New York, Milan.
creations she sends out onto the runway:
red, in Guo Pei’s workshop a couple of hours
But this is China Fashion Week in Bei-
exquisitely handcrafted dresses that feature
outside Beijing—in no small part because of
jing, and the models are preparing to hit the
luxury fabrics, intricate embroidery, and ela-
the cheap cost of Chinese labor.
runway in the opulent dresses of Guo Pei’s
borate constructions. Taking a page from the
Hesse’s images focus, however, on the
latest collection. China’s answer to a Parisian
techniques of haute couture, her workroom
theater of fashion. With her dramatic lighting,
haute couturier, Guo Pei, 45, started her ca-
employs 300 people—all of whom Guo Pei
she captures the intimate moments: models
reer 15 years ago, at a time when China had
has had to train in their meticulous craft. In a
stand patiently as dressers manage the final
no fashion industry to speak of. Since then,
process reminiscent of that practiced in the
fitting, share a conspiratorial glance, and wait
fashion, like just about everything in China,
traditional Paris ateliers, the embroidery of
pensively for their moment on the runway.
German-born, Beijing-based photographer Katharina Hesse focuses mainly on China’s social concerns—youth and urban culture, religion, and the plight of North Korean refugees. Her backstage images of Guo Pei’s fashion provides a glimpse into one corner of China’s emerging consumer culture.
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Š Fotoii historic photographs
Fotoii’s selection The Richard Vérascope stereoscopic pictures.
The Richard Vérascope brand was used on a long series of stereo cameras, beginning in 1893 and continuing throughout the 1950s with the Verascope f40 which was imported into the US under the Busch name. Fotoii Magazine has received from Professor Georges Abou-Jaoudé from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) a rare collection of glass with stereoscopic images created last century. Over these next few months, we will be showing our readers an extract of these images, which date back more than 70 years.
Moneglia spiaggia (Italy) Beginning 20th century
Vérascope model and wet plate glass
Photo-Festivals 2014
Images – a Free, Open-Air Photography Festival Concept In its own special way, the small and charming town of Vevey located on Lake Geneva, goes big again. Having spent all year preparing for this latest event, the town of Vevey has now wrapped up its walls and is ready to reveal its most beautiful and fascinating adornment to date, becoming for a three-week period a veritable dynamic international scene. Already known worldwide for its Riviera and former long-term resident Charlie Chaplin, since 2008 Vevey has also been achieving international renown as Switzerland’s first, free, open-air festival; a festival where the visitors become the performers as they intimately experience the artists’ creations. Organised by the ambitious Vevey City of Images Foundation (established in 1999) in partnership with various local institutions, the biennial festival is now host to some of the most spectacular open-air photography exhibitions and installations in the world. With the International Photography Award as the focal point of the festival, national and international juries also meet every other year (in between festival years) to decide on the basis of the excellence and originality of the work which artist should be named the winner of this prestigious award. Each winner then has a year to create an exclusive project for the next festival edition.
Jean-Daniel Berclaz Festival Images 2012 © Félix Janvier
JR Festival Images 2012 © Céline Michel
Festival des Arts visuels de Vevey
from september 13 until 05 october, 2014.
www.images.ch
Sohei Nishino Festival Images 2012 © Céline Michel
Images Festival, a festival dedicated to the visual arts
Edition 2014
Retrospective
Synopsis
Philip Kwame Apagya Festival Images 2012 © Céline Michel
Noémie Goudal Festival Images 2012 © Céline Michel
Founded in 1995, the first edition of Images Festival was held
In the wake of the success of its last few editions, it can be
to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Vevey School of Photogra-
said that Images Festival quite literally lives up to its slogan, “Vevey,
phy and Applied Arts (CEPV). It was focused around an international
City of Images”. Held biennially, the festival is once again ready to take
competition created especially for this special occasion: the Vevey
over the streets of Vevey for its latest edition to be held from Septem-
International Photography Award.
ber 13th to October 5th, 2014. With its unique open-air format, it will
The first few editions of the festival were actually held indoors and centred primarily on photography. In 1999, however, an official
once more transform the town of Vevey into an outdoors museum for the exhibition of projects created exclusively for the festival.
festival foundation was created and since 2000, in addition to the
For this year’s edition, the event has also been relocated to
three main partners of this foundation: the Jenisch Museum, the
the town’s heart, the Salle del Castillo, a fully renovated historical
Swiss Museum of Cameras and CEPV, the participation of Cinérive
patrimony, and will be presenting the creative works of internationally
in particular has been significant in cultivating the cinematographic
renowned artists (see below) such as Augustin Rebetez, winner of
element of the festival. In 2008, the arrival of Stefano Stoll as current
the 8th International Photography Award chaired by French photo-
festival director also marked a decisive moment in the festival’s deve-
grapher Bettina Rheims.
lopment, as it was Stoll who would originally spearhead the concept of an outdoors festival. Today, “Vevey, City of Images”, has blossomed into an excep-
Visitors will be enchanted by photographic works displayed on façades and the novelty of being able to touch or even step into custom-made installations.
tional international platform for open-air performance and photogra-
The impressive Images Festival thus continues to embody its
phy. Indeed, while the festival welcomed an impressive 47,000 indoor
reputation as the number one open-air photography festival in Swit-
visitors in 2012, it received over 100,000 outdoor visitors, and this
zerland and the most important event of its kind in Europe with its
despite the five exhibitions held annually at the festival’s dedicated
selection of some 50 new artists and emerging talents coming from
indoor exhibition space Quai No1.
over 15 different countries.
Augustin Rebetez Projet : arrière-tête (mécanismes) sans titre, 2014
The Vevey International Photography Award The Vevey International Photography Award was first es-
such as Leica, Broncolor and Nestlé ensures the continuance of this
tablished in 1995 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the CEPV
award. The 9th edition of Images Festival is now underway and is
School. Since then, every other year the Vevey City of Images Foun-
pleased to present Augustin Rebetez, a former CEPV student from
dation awards grants of up to 50,000 CHF in support of the field
Switzerland, and winner of the 2013 award who received 40,000
of photography. Over 800 candidates from around the world enter
CHF in 2013 to produce a body of work for Images Festival 2014,
each competition and a winner is selected by national and interna-
now soon to be unveiled.
tional juries. The winning artist is then given a year within which to
Next year Images.ch will be celebrating its 10th edition and
produce an original and custom-made project to be exclusively re-
we are already looking forward to discovering what the future winner
vealed at the next Images Festival. A solid partnership with sponsors
has in store for us.
Calendar Festivals
Promenades Photographique Jun 20 – Sep, 2014 Vendôme . France www.promenadesphotographiques.com
Filter Photo Festival Sep 24 – Sep 28, 2014 Chicago . United States www.filterfestival.com
Les Rencontres Arles Jul 07 – Sep 21, 2014 Arles . France www.rencontres-arles.com
Fotografia Sep 26 – Jan 11, 2015 Roma . Italy www.fotografiafestival
Bienne Festival of Photography Aug 22 – Sep 14, 2014 Bienne . Switzerland www.2014.jouph.ch
London Photo Festival Oct 16 – Oct 18, 2014 London . United Kingdom www.londonphotofestival.org
Cortona 2014 Jul 17 – Sep 28, 2014 Cortona . Italy www.cortonaonthemove.com
Brighton Photo Fringe Oct 04 – Nov 02, 2014 Brighton . United Kingdom www.photofringe.org
Dong Gang Festival Jul 18 – Sep 21, 2014 Dong Gang . South Korea www.dgphotofestival.com
Photo Levallois Oct 10 – Nov 15, 2014 Levallois . France www.photo-levallois.org
Visa pour l’image 2014 Aug 30 – Sep 14, 2015 Perpignan . France www.visapourlimage.com
mdf Berlin Oct 16 – Nov 16, 2014 Berlin . Germany www.mdf-berlin.de
Getxo Photo 2014 Aug 28 – Sep 28, 2014 Getxo . Spain www.getxophoto.com
eyes on Oct 28 – Nov 30, 2014 Vienna . Austria www.eyes-on.at
Breda Photo 2014 Sep 11 – Oct 26, 2014 Breda . Nederlands www.bredaphoto.n
Angkor Photo Festival Nov 29 – Dec 06, 2014 Siem Reap . Canbodia www.angkor-photo.com
Images 2014 Sep 13 – Oct 05, 2014 Vevey . Switzerland www.images.ch
Miami Street Photography Dec 04 – Dec 07, 2014 Miami . United States www.miamistreetphotographyfestival.org
Manifesto Sep 19 – Oct 04, 2014 Toulouse . France www.festival-manifesto.org
Photonola Dec 04 – Dec 07, 2014 New Orleans . United States www.photonola.org
Photo-Contest : The Fribourg (CH) association EX-pression is organising a photographic competition that is open to professional photographers based in Switzerland and Europe.
About Us EX- pression was set up ten years ago as a non-denominational, neutral, not-for-profit organisation offering services designed to help authors of violence through a socio-educational approach. Since 2004, it has implemented a specialised assistance and prevention programme in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Recognised as a public service, it promotes public awareness in both French and German, with a focus on the prevention of violent behaviour. Over the years, therapeutic support has helped many men and women to reduce and control their expressions of violence.
Theme To work at the heart of interpersonal violence within the couple is to work at the heart of the challenge posed by limits and the point at which these limits are overthrown. The concept of resorting to violence as an exceeded limit – sometimes debatable, sometimes clear-cut - designates a threshold crossed causing pain, fear, despair and rupture. What triggers this violation of intimacy? Is there a loss of/or desire to control? What limit has been violated or overstepped, that is not a purely physical act? Where is it located? Are we not all potential authors of violence within a couple? Violence within the couple at the limit of limits, symbols of the intolerable, conflicts of light and darkness, the setting for a manifestation at once defined and indistinct, sometimes so near, in each of us – this is what we wish to explore...
s 2EGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN UNTIL s 4HERE ARE TWO CATEGORIES OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS s 4HE CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF PHOTOGRAPHY WORKS IS s *UDGING WILL TAKE PLACE ON s 4HE OFlCIAL AWARDS CEREMONY WILL BE HELD ON For further information, please check out the www.ex-pression.ch homepage.
Calendar Exhibitions
Switzerland
Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni Sep 13 – Nov 30, 2014 Fotomuseum Winterthur Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45 Winterthur . Switzerland www.fotomuseum.ch
The Gay Essay Anthony Friedkin Jun 14 – Jan 04, 2015 Christophe Guye Galerie Dufourstrassse 31 Zurich . Switzerland www.christopheguye.com
Komische Bilder Peter Klaunzer Jul 24 – Sep 25, 2014 MAZ Galerie Murbacherstrasse 3 Lucerne . Switzerland www.mazgalerie.ch
Architecte de la mémoire Amos Gitaï Sep 17 – Jan 04, 2015 Musée Elysée 18, avenue de l’Elysée Lausanne . Switzerland www.elysee.ch
Portraits & Cameras Hans Eijkelboom Sep 13 – Oct 05, 2014 Swiss Camera Museum Grande Place 99 Vevey . Switzerland www.cameramuseum.ch
Face in the Crowd Alex Prager Sep 13 – Oct 05, 2014 QUAI N°1 Place de la Gare 3 Vevey . Switzerland www.images.ch
Zeitlos Schön Group Exhibition Jun 11 – Oct 19, 2014 Museum Bellerive Höschgasse 3 Zurich . Switzerland www.museum-bellerive.ch
Untitled Javier Téllez Oct 31 – Jan 04, 2015 Kunsthaus Heimplatz1 Zürich . Switzerland www.kunsthaus.ch
Repaires Yann Mingard Sep 28 – Nov 11, 2014 Photoforum PasquArt Seevorstadt 71 Biel . Switzerland www.photoforumpasquart.ch
Bonheur National Brut Adrien Golinelli Aug 10 – Sep 21, 2014 Galerie FOCALE Place du Château 4 Nyon . Switzerland www.focale.ch
Belegkontrolle Peter Piller Dec 11 – Feb 22, 2015 Centre de la Photographie 28, rue des Bains Geneva . Switzerland www.centrephotogeneve.ch
Close Distance Chris Killip Sep 19 – Dec 12, 2014 Gallery Focus 21 Beethovenstrasse 20 Zürich . Switzerland www.focus21.ch
In the Here and Now Swiss Art of the last 30 Years Oct 24 – Apr 26, 2014 Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 Berne . Switzerland www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
Mirror Mirror on the Wall Sissi Farassat Aug 28 – Oct 25, 2014 Edwynn Houk Gallery Stockerstrasse 33 Zürich . Switzerland www.houkgallery.com
Bilder von der Grenze 1914/18 Jun 07 – Oct 12, 2014 Fotostiftung Schweiz Grüzenstrasse 45 Winterthur . Switzerland www.fotostiftung.ch
Pure Markus Zuber Sep 19 – Oct 18, 2014 Galerie Monika Wertheimer Hohestrasse 134 Oberwil . Switzerland www.galeriewertheimer.ch
Europe
Somnium Gian Paul Lozza Sep 04 – Oct 30, 2014 Bildhalle Seestrasse 16 Kilchberg . Switzerland www.bildhalle.ch
Unterirdisch Graber Pulver Architekten Jul 04 – Sep 28, 2014 Museum für Gestaltung Zurich Ausstellungsstrasse 60 Zurich . Switzerland www.museum-gestaltung.ch
The Enclave Richard Mosse Jun 27 – Nov 11, 2014 FoMu Waalsekaai 47 Antwerp . Belgium www.fotomuseum.be
Neverland Lost Henry Leutwyler Sep 01 – Oct 04, 2014 Gallery Colette 213, Rue Saint-Honoré Paris . France www.henryleutwyler.com
Ornament, Masse & Macht Johann Besse, Cyril Porchet Jun 27 – Nov 11, 2014 Coalmine Turnerstrasse 1 Winterthur . Switzerland www.coalmine.ch
World of Ordinary Things Paul Martial Agency Jul 05 – Oct 19, 2014 Kunstmuseum Basel St. Alban-Graben 16 Basel . Switzerland www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
Le théatre du crime Rodolphe Archibald Reiss May 25 – Dec 07, 2014 Musée de la Photographie 11, avenue Paul Pastur Charleroi . Belgium www.museephoto.be
America Latina, 1960 – 2013 Groupe Exhibition May 24 – Sep 29, 2014 Fondation Cartier 261, boulevard Raspail Paris . France www.fondation.cartier.com
S’il ya lieu je pars… Group Exhibition Sep 11 – Oct 05, 2014 Le Bal 6, Impasse de la Défense Paris . France www.le-bal.fr
A new installation Paulien Oltheten Aug 08 – Oct 05, 2014 Museum für Photographie Helmstedter Straße 1 Braunschweig . Germany www.photomuseum.de
The War that ended Peace Groupe Exhibition Aug 04 – Oct 19, 2014 MAMM Kuybysheva street, 92 Samara . Russia www.mamm-mdf.ru
Intromisiones Aitor Ortiz Nov 05 – Dec 07, 2014 CentQuatre 5, rue Curial Paris . France www.hasselbladfoundation.org
Retrospective Garry Winogrand Oct 14 – Feb 08, 2015 Jeu de Paume 1, Place de la Concorde Paris . France www.jeudepaume.org
Visualleader 2014 The Best of Media Jun 14 – Sep 28, 2014 Deichtorhallen Deichtorstraße 1-2 Hamburg . Germany www.deichtorhallen.de
Expo 14 Historic Exhibition Jun 23 – Nov 30, 2014 CPIF 107, avenue de la République Paris . France www.expo14.com
Melancholia Lu Kowski May 07 – Sep 14, 2014 Fotografiska Stadsgårdshamnen 22 Stockholm . Sweden www.fotografiska.eu
Book Reviews
Gastlosen Emmanuel Gavillet
Unravelled Kaisa Gullberg
Critical Mass Michael Danner
Topos Tobias Madörin
For several years, the Fribourgian Emmanuel Gavillet, has been making silver emulsion photographs with a large-format camera in the Gastlosen peaks. It is for the first time that he is presenting the fruits of this long-term endeavour; about fifty large-format prints with a depth and vertiginous sharpness that reflect a strength of technique and great finesse in the treatment of light. Beyond a depiction of a mountain landscape, GASTLOSEN is also an inner quest and a piece of research on the subject of snow, ice and rock, leading the photographer to the frontiers of abstraction.
In Unravelled, Kajsa Gullberg looks at the marks that life makes on us – both the physical and the psychological. Gullberg combines images of women bearing scars on their bodies with those of the natural world – hinting at both a sense of inevitability and our unrealistic dreams of perfection. These women expose themselves, putting on display what our culture seeks to forget – the imperfect, the ugly and the embarrassing. And yet we need to be loved as we are. Unravelledis made in the hope that the viewer will come to love themselves a little bit more. The expressive qualities of Gullberg’s work are both intimate and edgy. Her viewers are given a raw, yet poetic, look at life.
Michael Danner documents in Critical Mass the architecture, everyday routine, and security systems of 17 nuclear power plants. High hopes and deep skepticism have accompanied the use of nuclear power up to the present day and anti-nuclear activism has shaped the political consciousness of a whole generation. The disaster in Fukushima in 2011 heralded yet a new era in the debate. Danner’s pictures give us a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the plants and is accompanied by historical photographs that document the construction phases and visualize the social tensions. The layout of the book and the cut through the front cover refer to the interaction of the present time and the past and the conflict between nuclear power opponents and the authorities.
For more than twenty years, Swiss photographer Tobias Madörin has been working on his photo series Topos. Creating staged tableaux in the manner of nineteenth-century painters, Madörin investigates the interaction between the inhabitants and their surrounding environments in countries as diverse as Spain, Uganda, Indonesia, and Japan. His large-scale images examine communal spaces, the outskirts of metropolises, waste disposal sites, and landscapes marked by agriculture and mining. Madörin’s work reveals that these locations are the products of human visions and ideals, yet they are also places of environmental exploitation. This tension, as well as Madörin’s intelligent and empathetic approach to his subjects, makes his photographs evocative and complex. This book includes lavish, full-page photographs, many of which have never been published previously.
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120 pages, 80 illustrations
88 pages, 49 tritone plates
288 pages, 151 illustrations
224 pages, 101 color illustrations
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Published 2013
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Topography Is Fate Matthew Arnold
Willy Rizzo Willy Rizzo
Only God Can Judge Me Matthieu Gafsou
Breath Tomohide Ikeya
Matthew Arnold spent months in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya to photograph these unfamiliar North African landscapes upon which many crucial battles in the North African Campaign were fought. The sites were found utilizing old battle maps to follow the paths that the Allied military units used, and hadn’t been seen and certainly not photographed in over sixty years. Arnold has documented the battlefields as they currently stand in a personal style of landscape photography: impressionistic muted horizons of desert, coastal seascape and grassland, incorporating bunkers, trenches, and physical artifacts of the conflict that remain as part of the environment.
During all his life, Willy Rizzo, the world famous photographer and designer spent his life building happiness, immortalizing and enhancing the world around him, actors, artists, fashion designers, friends and family with always his personal approach, this little touch that made the difference, a perfect technique and an intimacy that he was fond of. This book, large format and luxurious in the line of the important monographs of the Contrejour editions, that we owe to the creation studio Intensité, gather the most beautiful photographies, a selection of his design work and texts from Willy Rizzo himself, bright, always right and full of humor.
Matthieu Gafsou spent more than a year immersed in the lives of drug addicts. His photographs reveal the night, the moral abandon, and an altered reality. The portraits are noble, picturesque, far from the clichés the subject attracts; they reside alongside still lifes, allegorical landscapes, and abstractions. Together, they evoke a dark and poetic world where the function of photography is to render things as fantasy rather than to explain them. After studying history and film esthetics, he studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey. Since 2006 he participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States. He received the famous Prix de la fondation HSBC pour la photographie in 2009.
Above all, though, there is a limit to the number of breaths you can take. Among the many restrictions that exist in this world, this work focuses on “Breath,” the most essential factor. Breathing is indispensable to us; it repeats continually during our life, and we consider death to be the point at which breathing stops. Usually, breath is invisible, and I think it never registers in our consciousness. By separating ourselves from this phenomenon, which is so close to our own lives, we can consider its essence and value. This occurs in the water. When we are covered in water, the fear inside of us comes to the surface. Beyond this, the condition of not being able to breathe reveals our attachment to life. I capture this entirely unpredictable scene of struggle.
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176 pages, 79 Illustrations
432 pages
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Published 2013
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Lars Müller Publishers
Kehrer Verlag
Libro Arte
Fotomuseum Winterthur was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a repre-
These three orientations form the basis of the museum’s exhibition program and accompanying publications and events.
sentation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is on the one hand an
Together with Fotostiftung Schweiz, Fotomuseum Winterthur
art gallery for photography by contemporary photographers and ar-
has been running a Center of Photography since autumn of 2003,
tists (with exhibitions by Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin,
with a bistro, a library, seminar rooms, a lounge, and a shop. On the
Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Boris Mikhailov and many others). On
new expanded premises, and in addition to the changing exhibitions,
the other, the Fotomuseum Winterthur is also a traditional museum
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents changing shows of works from its
for works by 19th and 20th century masters (with exhibitions by
collection of contemporary photography, including work by Nobuyoshi
Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, Albert
Araki, Vanessa Beecroft, Lewis Baltz, Daniele Buetti, Larry Clark,
Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston,
Hans Danuser, William Eggleston, Nicolas Faure, Hans-Peter Feld-
Weegee and others). And finally, it is a cultural-historical, sociological
mann, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky, Roni
museum of applied photography in the fields of industry, architecture,
Horn, Axel Hütte, Urs Lüthi, Boris Mikhailov, Gilles Peress, Liza May
fashion, etc. (with exhibitions on police photography, industrial pho-
Post, Thomas Ruff, and Annelies Štrba.
tography, dam-construction photography, medical photography etc.). Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45 CH-8400 Winterthur
Phone +41 52 234 10 60 www.fotomuseum.ch
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