First edition. Hardcover. 132 pages. Text in English and German. Includes 302 illustrations with 194 in color from these photographers: Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Balthasar Burkhard, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Axel Hutte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, Thomas Ruff, Jorg Sasse, Beat Streuli, and Thomas Struth. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket.

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Title

XL Photography Art Collection Neue Borse

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern-Ruit

Publication Date

2001

Language

English

ISBN 10

3775710035

ISBN 13

9783775710039

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jarg Sasse, XL-Photography presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. XL-Photography presents close to 200 large-format works by the 14 aforementioned photographers, with pieces that range from the ironic pictorial narratives of Anna and Bernhard Blume to Htte's landscape images; from Candida Hafer's interior shots to Araki's provocative erotic stagings; from Ruff's deconstructions of subjectivity to Streuli's urban views. Much more than a simple collection catalogue, this smartly designed and lavishly illustrated book presents some of the essential positions taken in photographic art over the past ten years.

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When Germany's financial exchanges moved to a new building in the 1990s, an art collection was begun under the tutelage of Jean-Christophe Ammann, director of Frankfurt's Museum of Modern Art. This book presents more than 200 images now in the collection. Big names here include Thomas Struth, Beat Steuli, Thomas Ruff, Fischli & Weiss, and Nobyoshi Araki, but they are nicely complemented by lesser-known talents. Of the 16 artists, three are Swiss, one Japanese, and the rest German, and the style of the Dusseldorf School dominates even among the younger generation. Each artist's work is described in a short essay followed by full-page presentations of about a half-dozen works; at the end of the book, the artist' curricula vitae are presented along with from four to 32 small-format reproductions showing all pieces in the collection. The book's title reflects the large format all these photographers use, ranging up to wall-sized enlargements. This is perhaps the book's greatest drawback-even full-page reproductions cannot capture the unsettling intimacy of one of Ruff's 5' tall head shots. That said, this is a fine summary of an important group of artists and belongs in most academic and all art libraries.
Eric Bryant, "Library Journal."
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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