Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line (German/English)

Text(s) by Gerry Badger, Christoph Schaden

ISBN 10: 3775719725 / ISBN 13: 9783775719728

Published by Hatje Cantz, 2007

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Z : 152 Seiten/pp., 75 Abb./ills., clothbound
- Taken in the clear light of the midnight sun, and therefore almost shadowless, these photographs offer breathtaking views of an untouched landscape from a remote part of our planet. Olaf Otto Becker (*1959 in Travemünde) brings us images of overwhelming beauty, the result of his adventurous journeys in a rubber raft across the icy seas of Greenland.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1615906206110

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line (German/English)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: Multiple languages
• ISBN 10: 3775719725
• ISBN 13: 9783775719728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 28W x 35H x 0D centimeters 28 centimeters width by 35 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
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Synopsis

Olaf Otto Becker, born in 1959, worked for almost four years and covered thousands of miles by boat creating these photographs of the coastline of Greenland. The resulting images, made in the clear light of the midsummer night over long exposures, are worth the effort. Almost shadowless neo-romantic dreamscapes, they are unrealistically beautiful. Becker sometimes waits days for the right image or condition to appear in order to produce a single image--a process that leaves him with only about 25 photographs per year. Though visually diverse, all of the pictures share the contemplative character of their creator. Becker, who was once a painter, doesn't photograph scenery: He builds compositions, using his eye and his patience to develop a work of melancholic beauty, in the powerful iconography of the nineteenth-century landscape. He has exhibited widely in Europe, and his previous monograph was short-listed for the Rencontres D'Arles Book Award.