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[colonellickburger]

Bruce Davidson, from the book The Way Back. Welsh Miner, Wales, 1965

[garadinervi]

Richard Serra: Forged Steel, Texts by Richard Serra and Richard Shiff, Designed by McCall Associates, David Zwirner Books, New York, NY / Steidl, Göttingen, 2016 [Saint-Martin Bookshop, Bruxelles-Brussel. Art: © Richard Serra / ARS, New York]

Exhibition: Richard Serra: Equal, David Zwirner, New York, NY, May 1 – July 24, 2015

[guy60660]

Christoph Niemann | Steidl

[petersolarz]

New in the library © Peter Solarz

William Eggleston, The Outlands by Steidl

Other worldly color by the Master and his printer. My jaw is still on the floor.

[germanpostwarmodern]

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Joachim Brohm explored the edges of the Ruhr area where landscape and man-made structures meet and oftentimes people spend their leisure time. From an elevated standpoint Brohm documented landscapes and how people used it and moved in it. Taking up the approach of the New Topographics Brohm captured what Heinz Liesbrock calls the „Topographies of Anonymity“, moments suspended in time showing people and objects in seemingly everyday situations. But what he puts on film is far from accidental: his well-composed landscape views in their restrained coloring document the parallel of man and nature in a landscape that is neither urban nor entirely rural. With it comes a nobility of the ordinary that even today, some 40 years after these photographs were shot, is fascinating and wonderfully compiled in the present volume: “Joachim Brohm - Ruhr”, published by Steidl Verlag in 2007. It reproduces about fifty of Brohm’s photographs from all over the Ruhr area ranging from wintery skating scenes reminiscent of Pieter Brueghel paintings to rowers at Lake Baldeney in Essen. The series is preceded by a very informative introduction by Heinz Liesbrock who breaks down the many influences and references present in Brohm’s work but also underscores the photographer’s audacity to use color film in times when black and white was still the standard. A great read and one of my all-time favorite photographic works.

[lascitasdelashoras]

David Lynch por Nadav Kander

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

September 11

On this Milestone Monday, September 11, our minds and hearts wander to New York City and the stirring photography of American photographer Jerry Spagnoli (b. 1956). For those of us with memories of witnessing the attacks on the Twin Towers, our immediate reaction to Spagnoli’s photos may be to assume the worst. However, these photos taken between May and September 2012 mark an unexpected and pure New York experience fabricated by Spagnoli in Times Square.  

In his book Regard, Spagnoli documents the faces of people transfixed on an enormous electronic billboard above Times Square. The billboard was programmed to periodically display live imagery of the crowd below it. What we see in the almost 500 faces captured in Regard are people encountering the billboard, looking for and finding themselves projected upon it. Spagnoli is best known for his work with the daguerreotype photographic process and is included in several major American art museums. At the heart of his photography, and prevalent in Regard, is an unearthing of his subjects' points of view. Regard was published in 2018 by Steidl and printed in Göttingen, Germany. UWM Special Collections holds a first edition. 

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-- Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[photobookjunkies]

📚 From our personal bookshelf:

2 1/4 by William Eggleston (Twin Palms, 1999)

Photobook junkies 📚👀

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 573

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Taryn Simon

Steidl 2008

Taryn Simon (b. 1975) is a multidisciplinary artist, who, with her 4x5 view camera, was given access to photograph those restricted or secret places that exist on the fringes of American culture. Some of these places are essential to the daily functioning of the country or essential to the country’s foundation or collective mythology, but they remain in most cases almost completely unknown. Within we are given glimpses of the Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility in Washington State; the Avian Quarantine Facility of the N.Y. Import Center; the Celebrity Centre screening room in L.A.’s Church of Scientology (where I have also been); the Death Row Outdoor Recreational Facility at the Mansfield, Ohio, Correctional Institution; the Plum Island Animal Disease Center off Long Island, New York; a decomposing corpse at the Forensic Anthropology Research Center in Knoxville, Tennessee; and an inbred white tiger (Kenny) at the Selective Inbreeding Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and Foundation in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Because of the how Simon chose to shoot these mysterious sites—compositionally flat and formal, often in dim lighting, muted color palettes—it all feels a bit off. Not fake exactly—but somehow too real. And perhaps that’s the point. Strange, but bureaucratic; fantastic, yet mundane—not unlike the country itself.

[fotophilosophy]

Book Flip-through - Once There Were Polaroids

I have been on a bit of a splurge when it came to photobooks recently. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I am rekindling my passion for the hobby, and I find that there’s no better way to do so than to look at photographs. When I ordered this book, I thought that it was by a photographer who specialized in Polaroids. This was printed by Steidl. If you haven’t heard of the printer, you should look…

[colonellickburger]

Joel Sternfeld. Lake Oswego, Oregon, June 1979

[garadinervi]

Richard Serra: Early Work, Text by Hal Foster, Designed by McCall Associates, David Zwirner, New York, NY / Steidl, Göttingen, 2014 [Art: © Richard Serra / ARS, New York]

[guy60660]

Arnold Odermatt | Steidl

[saleszulu76]

Lukas Steidl @ SP Models Innsbruck (2024)

[germanpostwarmodern]

The structural life cycles of big cities are inevitably characterized by rise, decay, changes of use and transformation. The latter is at the core of photographer Joachim Brohm’s long-term project „Areal“: between 1992 and 2002 Brohm again and again returned to the former Raab Karcher areal in Munich, documenting its transformation from industrial area to residential quarter. In contrast to his earlier projects Brohm only rarely used an elevated standpoint but rather zoomed in on the manifold goings-on that marked the transformation. Where in the beginning interim uses of often weird nature characterized the area in later years construction work, lorries and construction workers dominated the scene. Brohm again shows the ostensibly banal that through his subjective and well-constructed view receives the character of a silent yet striking interpretation of the passing of time in a neverland in transit. Brohm documents the symptoms of transition as well as chance finds that tell of the life still going on in the wasteland. His photographs become a visual inventory of time and space but also of the placelessness of this „Areal“.

A selection of the series’ more than 300 individual photographs is presented in the eponymous catalogue published by Steidl in 2003. The catalogue, which also contains two highly readable essays by Regina Bittner and Urs Stahel, beautifully reproduces Brohm’s photographs and invites the reader to give in to the tranquility of this series and reflect about urban contexts and how time shapes surroundings and environments.

Yet another wonderful work by one of the great contemporary photographers.

[henk-heijmans]

Paving the way, 2023 - by Joanna Steidle, American