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“Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946-2004”. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007. Tall 4to hardcover, with dustjacket. 192 pages with 128 photos, hereof 2 in color and 126 in Triplex print. Texts by Helle Crenzien, Geoff Dyer, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Rune Gade, Michael Juul Holm, Christoph Ribbat, Judith Thurman et al. Fine clean copy
First edition. Book designed by Michael Jensen
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“In the history of photography, that is to say the history of photography according to the art museum, color photography became an artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence of such photographers as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. However, in 1948 the Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen prefigured their work by two decades or so…his aim was to make pictures that would only work in color, and not in black and white…he achieved his ends in a similar way to Shore or Eggleston, by concentrating on the mundane and the everyday…it deserves credit as a singular, remarkably early and largely successful attempt to make color photography work” Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in The Photobook, A History
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg & Katharina Sattler: Curtains at the Piazza San Marco in Venice / Vorhänge am Markusplatz in Venedig. Cologne, Verlag Studio Dumont / DuMont Buchverlag, 1973. Oblong large 4to in wraps as issued. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and a short text in both German, Italian and…
“Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, Rome, but also Amager, Aalborg and Aarhus.
The text reminiscences from the different cities tell about the development in the world and its cityscapes, where everything is always temporary and changing. They also testify to gentrification, for example in the inner city of Rome. The flagship stores of modern capitalism’s corporate stores have taken over retail space that used to offer ordinary necessities of life instead of Prada and Gucci. But in some places, the facades of the former shops remain as traces of a bygone everyday life.
With the right gaze or the right amount of light, these text images appear as suddenly appearing shadows against the background. The texts give the passer-by unfulfilled promises of charcuterie, flowers, bread, groceries, tobacco, etc. As faint markings on doors and windows on facades, where in the near or distant past there was a shop and welcomed customers.
The book’s sober black-and-white images point to the prevalence of the ‘dead’ semi-resolved texts in urban spaces – and the fairly uniform appearance that characterizes them regardless of geographical location. At the same time, the entropic decay can perhaps be compared to the texts left to us by now-disappeared cultures; The inscriptions of the Roman Empire, which are still found around the cityscape of Rome, or the Nordic rune stones and rock carvings”
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The original catalogue edited by Andrew Roth, with an afterword by Hasse Persson, essays by Simon Anderson & Ute Eskildsen and Gerhard Steidl, conversation with Philip Aarons and contribution by Robert Frank. The exhibition catalogue presents (in photos) more than 130 of the most significant examples of the photobook . “the photographic book from 1878 to the present. A unique art form in their own right, photography books have played a major role within the photographic tradition almost since photographs were first taken”
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