Elger Esser: Views

Purhinger, Alexander

ISBN 10: 3829603576 / ISBN 13: 9783829603577

Published by Schirmer/Mosel, 2008

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Signed. First Edition. SIGNED; signed by photographer Elger Esser on half title page. Very Good+ in clean and bright dust jacket. Appears unread with NO markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elger Esser: Views
• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3829603576
• ISBN 13: 9783829603577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Waves, wells, and watersides--from hsi very beginnings, water has been a continuous subject of Elger Esser's photographic landxcapes and vedutas. In his most recent series, the Dusseldorf photographer presents digitally processed, colored seaside postcards from the 1900s showing bathers and boats, rocks and froth. Selected from the artist's enormous postcard collection, these highly enlarged, grainy seascapeds exude an intriguing old-masterly quality that brigns to mind past times and the memories inscribed. Fusing antique aesthetics and digital technology, Esser proves to be an avant-garde romantic of our times, a quiet apocalyptic praising life against the disappearance of the world. Alexander Puhringer's essay relates Esser's tableaus to the classic age of discovery and th grand-tour quest for far-away places.

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Waves, wells, and watersides--from hsi very beginnings, water has been a continuous subject of Elger Esser's photographic landxcapes and vedutas. In his most recent series, the Dusseldorf photographer presents digitally processed, colored seaside postcards from the 1900s showing bathers and boats, rocks and froth.