"Cecile Wick s work, oscillating among photography, painting, and drawing, is one of the most important oeuvres in contemporary Swiss art. Solo exhibitions in various galleries and a large retrospective at the Museum of Fine Art in Berne have recently showcased her prints and etchings to great acclaim."Cecile Wick. Colored Waters" offers readers the first glimpse of the artist s more recent photographs and, in particular, drawings. Water ..."
Breaking the Rules(1st Edition) Plakate der bewegten 1980er Jahre in der Schweiz / Posters from the turbulent 1980s in Switzerland (Poster Collection) (German and English Edition) by MartinJaeggi, Peter Schweger Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Lars Müller Publishers Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-03778-094-7, ISBN: 3-03778-094-0
"Vor dem Hintergrund der sozialpolitischen Aufbruchstimmung manifestiert sich in den 1980er Jahren auch im schweizerischen Grafik-Design eine neue Expressivität, beeinflusst von der Punkästhetik und ersten Experimenten mit dem Macintosh. Alternative Kultur- und Politbetriebe setzten bewusst auf ein neues visuelles Erscheinungsbild, um sich damit von etablierten Institutionen abzugrenzen. In konstruktiver Reibung mit der stilistischen Str ..."
"Temporary Discomfort is artist Jules Spinatsch's documentation of three cities in a transitory state of emergency lock-down during two global economic summits (WEF and G8). It comines different photographical genres: landscape photography of the site, photojournalism, and police photography, but with the camera lens turned, atypically, on the security forces. The photo series and videos aim to achieve a speculative reconstruction of the ..."
"In 1977 Pietro Mattioli took portraits in Zurich’s first Punk and New Wave nightclub. Their reduced and austere aesthetics followed a simple formula: the sitters were photographed with a flashlight in front of a neutral background, a fast and immediate look that was as outrageously sensationalist as it was coolly narcissistic. Mattioli created portraits that still look as fresh as if they were taken last night. They are combined with vi ..."
Teresa Chen Welcome to Polkamotion with Ma and Pa Chen by Teresa Chen, MartinJaeggi, Patrick Frey Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2002 by Scalo Publishers ISBN-13: 978-3-905509-40-3, ISBN: 3-905509-40-7
"Teresa Chen, a second-generation Chinese-American artist, often works with private photographs taken by her family. In this book, we get to know the obsessive hobby of her remarkable parents. Since their retirement, they have fully dedicated themselves to polka dancing, travelling to countless festivals and contests across the USA. Their enthusiasm for polka dancing is only surpassed by their desire to photographically document their pa ..."
"Das von der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste unter der Leitung des Kollegium Kuration initiierte Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsprogramm Revisiting Black Mountain hat vom 19.April bis 3.Juni 2018 über vierzig Projekte, Ausstellungen, Aufführungen und Vorträge von Lehrenden, Studierenden und Forschenden versammelt. In Auseinandersetzung mit Positionen des legendären Colleges wurde über Gegenwart und Zukunft von Kunsthochschulen, ihre Arbei ..."
Mihriban by Linda Herzog, MartinJaeggi Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2008 by Ram Distribution ISBN-13: 978-3-940215-03-1, ISBN: 3-940215-03-1
"Mihriban, a Turkish girl's name, means - good friend, with a good heartand a laughing face - it's also the title of a well-known love song inTurkey. And this book is Swiss photographer Linda Herzog's love songto the country she lived in from 2004-2007. The 50 color photographschosen from her Turkish journeys prove her to be an acute observerwhose vision is unclouded by romantic notions and touristic illusions;she depicts the juxtapositi ..."
"Zurich artist Walter Pfeiffer presents us with more than 100 portraits of women in his new book Cherchez la femme! Most of these photographs are being published for the first time and show a new facet to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre. Pfeiffer celebrates his quest for beauty and glamour with sophistication, irony, and wit. He guides you through a world residing between reality and reverie, snapshot and mise-en-scene. With simple means h ..."
"Whether it's globalization, the New Economy, or young protesters in Seattle, trade is obviously on everyone's mind these days. This book offers a unique and fresh look at the concepts and realities of trade today. Images by photographers from all over the world add up to a fascinating panoramic view of a world shaped by trade: the artifice, glitz, and glamour of shopping, the sprawling metropolises in the East and the West, the lavish d ..."
"Electronic music over the last few years has conquered the Western world with the force of a thunderstorm. It has created a new movement that expresses itself in Love Parades in Berlin and Zurich and in club scenes that fans of the "old" rock and pop music scene never even dreamt of. Zurich, Switzerland has become a European center for electronic music, and one of its most popular nightspots, founded in 1997, is Rohstofflager ("warehou ..."
"For decades the work of Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger was shrouded in obscurity. In the 1950s he published numerous homoerotic photographs under the pseudonym "Jim" in Der Kreis (The Circle), the legendary international gay magazine that featured highly sophisticated photographs by, among others, George Platt Lynes and Herbert List. Weinberger was one of the first queer photographers to show his often working-class models posi ..."
"Is there such a thing as a unique “Zürich photography”? Is it possible that a photographic viewpoint can develop from a particular place that distinguishes itself from the rest of contemporary photography? Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zürich School of Art and Design’s photography department, Photography, Made in Zürich documents how the illustrious program forged a niche in the international art world an ..."
"Somewhere on a rooftop in Brooklyn, an old man breeds pigeons, feeding and flying them. It is an unspectacular, seemingly banal scene, and it is one that photographer Marianne Müller observed and photographed for months. The result of her observations and reflections is The Flock, a rich and dense record of life above the rooftops of Brooklyn, oscillating between documentary observation and metaphorical condensation. Precise observation ..."
"The camera is the medium through which Marianne Mueller observes self and world, at home and on trips, day and night. This was her starting point for The Proper Ornaments, an art book that simultaneously displays the last twelve years of her work. The book combines her clever body images and observations of the ubiquitous beauty of the allegedly mundane to become a dionysic shadowy world, something beyond reason and norm."
"In this accessible and eloquent book-length essay, Urs Stahel, writer, curator and co-founder of Fotomuseum Winterthur, muses on the very nature of photography. The introduction outlines the unique tension defining photography--that it shows a segment of the world and simultaneously expresses a subject's particular view of this world. This tension is the source of the medium's unique creative potential and its complex relation to truth. ..."
"For 15 years, Swiss documentary photographer Jules Spinatsch (born 1964) has been creating panoramas of various spaces―football stadiums, the Vienna Opera Ball, a prison, the SAP headquarters―by combining thousands of individual images. Spinatsch’s series and his creative process are documented in this volume."
"Walter Keller gru ndete 1978 Der Alltag - Sensationen des Gewöhnlichen, 1984 mit Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt und Peter Blum zusammen die Kunstzeitschrift Parkett, 1991 den Fotobuchverlag Scalo - Books and Looks, 1993 dann die Gru ndung des Fotomuseum Winterthur. Ein eindru ckliches Palmarès. Aber du rftig verglichen mit der u berbordenden Kreativität, Neugier, Inspiration und Energie, mit der Walter Keller fast 40 Jahre lang Fre ..."
"Filmmaker Iwan Schumacher, known for his portraits of artists, bought a small camera in early 1972 and took it with him everywhere he went. The camera became his notebook. Schumacher subsequently gave himself up to the lure of the landscapes, people and mood-changing lighting that he came across. With his little Canon he could shoot away without intention, without prescribed subject or theme, much the way we take pictures with cell phon ..."
"Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner (born 1972) is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing--with superficial coolness--the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors."