Jeff Cowen
Subtitle: photoworks
By: [photographs by] Jeff Cowen ; essays by Nanda van den Berg and David Campany ; Ludwig Museum, Koblenz and Huis Marseille Museum for photography, Amsterdam
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9783960980490
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Nature photography; Abstract Photography; Photocollage; Photography of sculpture; Still-life photography; Portrait photography; Photographers
Other titles: Photoworks
Description: Cowen uses only analogue photography. All the prints are made in his darkroom. His chief concern is to plumb and expand the limits of the medium from a present-day perspective. The photographs themselves represent only the starting point of an artistic process. Using chemicals and other additives, Cowen works freely on the photographic paper, in order thus to appropriate the material in a painterly fashion. Other works are created totally without a negative. He is primarily concerned less with the photographic image, the individual motif - be it landscape, portrait, still life or sculpture - than with the material, chemical pre-conditions of the photographic process. He is interested in the question of how the sensory experience of three-dimensional plasticity can be reproduced in the two-dimensionality of the photographic print. Exhibition: Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (30.10.2016-22.01.2017) / Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (11.03-04.06.2017).
Notes: Inserted separately is essay by Nanda van den Berg "Jeff Cowen und die Patina der Gegenwart" in German.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Jeff Cowen. photoworks". Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, 30 October 2016 through 22 January 2017 [and] Huis Marseill Museum for photography, Amsterdam, 11 March trough 4 June 2017"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, essay by Nanda Van den Berg also in German.
Table of contents: title: Nanda van den Berg "Jeff Cowen and the Patina of the Present; title: Nature; title: Structure; title: Collage; title: David Campany "A Question of Finish. Thoughts on the Work of Jeff Cowen"; title: Sculpture; title: Still Life; title: Portrait; title: Biography; title: Selected Exhibition History; title: Bibliography; title: List of Works.