Blitz & Enzianblau
Subtitle: Lightning flash & gentian blue
By: Manfred Willmann ; Übersetzungen: Paul Aston, Stephen Grynwasser
Series: Fotohof Edition -- Band 252; Fotohof Edition -- Bd. 252.
Publisher: Fotohof edition
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Salzburg
Language: mul
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9783902993526
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Bildband; Fotografie
Other titles: Blitz und Enzianblau; Lightning flash & gentian blue; Lightning flash and gentian blue; Manfred Willmann :
Description: With 'Blitz und Enzianblau', Manfred Willmann presents his third profound artist book? following Schwarz and Gold (Graz 1981) and Das Land (Salzburg 2000), composed of works from the year 2005. Intense close-up views, series of landscapes, animals, plants, everyday objects and portraits are interrupted by reproductions of the backside of the Agfa photo paper Sensatis. 0Having produced more than a thousand analog prints in the year 2005 on this material, Willmann has only looked at them ten years later and subsequently developed the present book.0'Blitz und Enzianblau' brings together photographs that show not only the surface of the world, but also tell about of the medium of photography itself - of its very own possibilities to represent the world, in its beauty, ugliness and transience, as images. In the way as concrete poetry speaks about language itself, Willmann exposes the texture of the medium of photography. His photographs deal with constellations, still-lives, and moments? isolated by his flash, often painful in their existential depth, but entirely free of sentimentality.
Notes: Title from colophon.