The encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel
By: with a foreword by Joachim Schmid
Contributors: Schmid, Joachim, writer of introduction; Degiorgis, Nicoló, 1985- writer of preface, book designer; Hutton, Walter, book designer; Galleria foto-forum (Bolzano, Italy)
Publisher: Rorhof
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bolzano, Italy
Language: eng; ger; ita
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9788890981753
Subjects: Photobooks; Specimens; Artists' books; Voyeurism in art; Electronic surveillance in art; Livres d'artistes
Description: "For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorising them by recurring patterns and subjects. This encyclopedia is comprised of a small part of his archive."--page [3]
Notes: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel", foto-forum Bolzano/Bozen, 13.05 - 20.06.2015"--colophon.

Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Text in English, German, and Italian.