“In a single century, wheat culture was reduced from over sixty thousand to a few dozen high-yield types. Remains of the disappeared native breeds of wheat are stored in seed banks, frozen and numbered, raw material for experiments. Beyond its concrete purpose, wheat has therefore achieved its highest abstraction as embodiment of wealth and sovereignty in the monetary symbol and in the computer number. The ears shown here are only a small fraction of the native breeds of wheat stored in the refrigerators of the gene banks. The photographs of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg make them accessible again to our senses. They are signs of recognition on the road to an entombed memory of the idea of variety and fertility existing before the victorious progress of the monoculture”
“EWIGER WEIZEN. Fotografien von Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (“Wheat Forever. Photographs by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg”).
Ulm Brotmuseum, 1995. Small 8vo. Hardcover, complete with dustjacket. 64 pages. Only light wear to cover corners, else fine and very well preserved attractive copy
First edition, 1st printing, very rare
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Space Poetry, 2005. 4to. Original black and white photoillustrated wrappers. Unpaginated. New copy.
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With 45 photographs of prostitutes of Copenhagen by Krass Clement. First edition. Livre photo avec 45 photographies noir et blanc pour ce reportage au sein de la prostitution à Copenhague
FOTO: Rdo. Limited edition exhibition poster Rdo designed by Michael Jensen of KGRAFIK Copenhagen. Bolette photographed by Richard Winther. Winther (1926-2007), important Danish painter, sculptor, writer, photographer and more, largely unknown outside Denmark . Selfmade camera styles superficially with some resemblance to Miroslav Tichy. Richard Winter however was a very…
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“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”
