Balthasar Burkhard /
This book presents the many facets of photographer Balthasar Burkhard (1944?2010), showing his self-invention as an artist and tracing the trajectory of the medium of photography in the later half of the twentieth century. Burkhard?s work combines a sensitive understanding of the body as sculpture a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Göttingen :
Steidl,
[2018]
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| Summary: | This book presents the many facets of photographer Balthasar Burkhard (1944?2010), showing his self-invention as an artist and tracing the trajectory of the medium of photography in the later half of the twentieth century. Burkhard?s work combines a sensitive understanding of the body as sculpture and the photographic image as a canvas, making him one of the pioneers in translating photography as a monumental?tableau? into contemporary art.0This comprehensive book coalesces Burkhard?s early role as a chronicler of the contemporary art of his time, especially as the main photographer for Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, his conceptual redefinition of photography together with other artists, and finally his emancipation as a photo artist. It accompanies a major retrospective organized by Museum Folkwang in Essen, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz, the Museo d?arte della Svizzerra italiana in Lugano and the Balthasar Burkhard Estate in Bern.00Exhibition: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (20.10.2017- 14.01.2018) / Fotomuseum Winterthur und Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland (11.02. - 21.04.2018) / Museo d?arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland (09.06. - 02.09.2018). |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Folkwang, October 14, 2017-January 14, 2018 ; Fotomuseum Winterthur/Fotostiftung Schweiz, February 10-May 21, 2018 and Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, June 9-September 2, 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 296 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783958293427 3958293425 |