www.fotokritik.de
Texte zur zeitgenössischen Fotografie und digitalen Bildkunst
Sophie Ristlhueber: "Fait, books on books 3", errata editions 2009,
ISBN 978 1 935004 04 2
Last year Jeffrey Ladd (of 5b4) with two compagnons founded errata editions in New York, with the intention to make rare books accessible again, by reproducing the book page per page, with historical essays, bibliography of the artist featured, translations and making-of’s of the original at a reasonable (as he says „democratic“) price. Whereas Chris Killip’s „In Flagrante“, number 4 in the series, must be called one of the most study-worthy books next to „The Americans“ (and most difficult to get), I’m especially in love with „Fait“. After having gone through the reproduction of her incredible book, after the essay, nearly at the end of this errata book, there is a portrait of her, standing next to a jeep in the desert, two burning oil wells in her back („Fait“ was photographed shortly after the first Gulf war in Kuwait in 1991), grinning. Victoriously? Maliciously? Happy? I think she enjoys the knowledge that only the artist can turn the signs of defeat into a victory. Her pictures are mostly aerial views of the Kuwaiti desert, others were taken close to the ground, incessably the camera is pointed downwards, and the book makes you gain and lose dimensions page per page. For a lot of book lovers the errata series is the most expected and promising undertaking in 2009.
We could come to doubt everything, and almost everyone could come to doubt, Wytske van Keulen, Self-produced 2008, 318 pages,
no ISBN
Saying that the book by a young (26) Dutch photographer is self- produced (maybe with the help of state grands) is nowadays already like handing it a gold-medal. A lot of the bigger publishers couldn’t come up with something that’s so well-produced, thought-out,carefully edited and brilliantly printed as this book. It’s about a Spanish village and one elderly Dutch emigré living there, but also a story about faith and revelations, about WWII, as much as about destiny. The book takes good time to unravel the strands, the images and portrays are distanced as not to be intrusive, and only some dates and quotes by Juan, the main character, in the appendix, help getting the larger biographical and historical picture. Medal well-earned!
09.04.2009
< | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | >
google english translation
Kommentar zu diesem Artikel ins Forum schreiben
Email an den Autor
Druckversion
Editorial
Autoren
Forum
Newsletter
Mitarbeit
Kontakt
Impressum