Sylt
Subtitle: im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Fotografie
By: hrsg. von Denis Brudna ; Texte von Cora Frost ... [et al.] ; [fotografen, Julia Baier ... et al. ; redaktion, Anna Gripp]
Contributors: Willy-Brandt-Haus
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ostfildern
Language: ger
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783775733649
Subjects: Pictorial works; Exhibitions; Seaside resorts in art
Other titles: Im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Fotografie
Description: Almost no other place in Germany is viewed with as much prejudice as Sylt. Yet the supposed "island of beautiful people" has countless facets. When the summer is over and tourism ebbs, it becomes quiet and melancholy. Then the landscape shows its true face: a timeless beauty marked by the traces of civilization, which makes for amusing, contradictory situations. In a long-term project, selected artists and photographers spent five years traveling the island and depicting its picturesque or dismal sides, sometimes in documentary, other times in artistic form. Along with earlier photographs, some of them dating from the sixties, this publication features an interesting variety of views of Sylt - from the soft, sandy beaches to the absurd concrete deserts. The accompanying essays explore the notion of wanderlust or indulge in a certain pleasure in critical comedy.0Exhibition: Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany (July 2012); Stiftung Kunst:Raum, Rantum, Germany (May 2013).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, July 6-Aug. 27, 2012.