Urs Stahel Knihy

Photographer Zoe Leonard practices a type of cerebral roaming combined with carefully considered observation. For more than 20 years she has crisscrossed nature and culture, cityscapes and museums, always searching for signs that say something about structures, about natural and cultural conditions and the contradictions, parallels and connections between them. Leonard's photographs of anatomical wax figures, fashion shows, trees and fences present figures in sparse black-and-white images that open up visual fields of thought and reveal within them our visible world--the concrete and established structures that make up our reality. Leonard first created an international stir at the Documenta 9 exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 1992, when she placed black-and-white photographs of female genitalia in the context of a male-dominated museum. Since then, the political aspects of her work have formed a backdrop for her constant struggle with shape, imagery and the union of symbols and content. This is the first book to showcase Leonard's complete oeuvre.

Foreword / Kathrin Becker, Urs Stahel -- Stephen Wilks -- Céline Van Balen -- Astrid Klein -- In The Thicket Of Berlin / László Földényi -- Berlin, The City Of Birds / Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- Frank Thiel -- Clegg & Guttmann -- Eternal Suburb / Matthias Zschokke -- Open Skies Over Berlin / Paul Virilio -- Boris Mikhailov -- Rémy Markowitsch -- Juergen Teller -- Berliners And Dogs / Monika Maron -- Refreshment Ride To Lichtenrade / Thomas Kapielski. Kathrin Becker, Urs Stahel (hg.) ; Mit Bildbeiträgen Von Clegg & Guttmann ... [et Al.] ; Mit Textbeiträgen Von László Földényi ... [et Al.]. Das Buch Erscheint Zur Gleichnamigen Ausstellung Im Fotomuseum Winterthur (11.11.2000-14.1.2001) Und Anschliessend Gemeinsam Im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein Und Der Daadgalerie In Berlin (17.3.-29.4.2001)--t.p. Verso. For This Project Eight International Artists And Six International Writers Were Invited To Work On The Theme Berlin. German And English.

The creator of radical and poetic work, Boris Mikhailov focuses his camera on people's everyday life, capturing both the social and historical conditions in the Soviet Union and the changes that occurred after 1989, with the breakdown of order in the Ukraine. In the 1970s, Mikhailov started to photograph "life the way it is." He dealt with the "city without a main street," the anti-heroic, the incidental, the private sphere and leisure time in the Soviet Union. His book Case History, a heart-wrenching monument to the forgotten losers of system change, documented the plight of the homeless in the Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The critical aspects of his photographs, provocative performances and combinations of words and images make Mikhailov a conceptual documentary artist who creates moving images of the wounded human soul--simultaneously full of humor and seriousness. This book is dedicated to Mikhailov's entire oeuvre. Essays on individual works and periods run together with a flow of images to underline his different photographic techniques and to deepen our understanding of a rich work that intentionally seems unspectacular. Created in collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur. Essays by Urs Stahel, Ekaterina Dyogot, Anne von der Heiden, Michael Schischkin, Inka Schube, Helen Petrovsky and Margarita Tupitsyn. Hardcover, 7 x 9.5 in./176 pgs / 60 color 0 BW35 duotone 0 ~ Item D20311

“Photography is always suspended between authenticity, construction and selection … a balancing act that is, to me, its quintessential justification as an artistic medium” Shirana Shahbazi Shirana Shahbazi adopts different approaches to photography in her work and explores genres as varied as the vanitas still-life, portraiture, landscape and colour abstraction. Shahbazi is just as mobile in her choice of media, for example commissioning carpet makers in her native Iran and billboard painters to copy her images. Often employing the slick look of commercial photography, Shahbazi’s images are bright and accessible, yet at heart dispassionate and sceptical. Shirana Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1974, moved to Germany in 1985 and today lives in Zurich. Shahbazi studied photography and design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund and at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Barbican Art Gallery in London and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

NOWHERE explores a world dominated by Instagrammability, where reality is shaped by seductive images. It features the work of Dutch photographer Frank van der Salm over 25 years, presenting an imaginary, consumer-driven metropolis. The book includes essays linking his art to design, architecture, and urban development.