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L'Insensé BERLIN & CO
Pourquoi ? Quelle est la capitale européenne qui connaît aujourd’hui une prodigieuse effervescence artistique ? Berlin.
Quel est le pays qui a le plus d’écoles de photographie prestigieuses dans le monde ? l’Allemagne.
Quel est le magazine qui, chaque année, fait un état des lieux d’un pays à travers sa culture photographique ? L’Insensé Photo.
Vous l’aurez bien sûr deviné, le numéro de L’Insensé Photo, à paraître le 29 septembre 2009, est un spécial : « Berlin & Co, les photographes allemands ».
Comment ? Effectivement, il n’y a pas plus riche en photographie que cette culture si exigeante, au passé conceptuel et à l’avenir ouvert. 50 photo... - Concours
European Master of Fine Art Photography
Program director Moritz Neumüller I Faculty include: Martin Parr | Simon Roberts | Alejandro Castellote | Javier Vallhonrat | Jean-François Chevrier | Elger Esser | Beat Streuli | Andreas Müller-Pohle | Dinu Li | Irina Tchmyreva | Joan Fontcuberta.
The European Master of Fine Art Photography is based on 3 fundamental premises:
- Its international nature, with a special focus on the European context.
- The excellence of its faculty.
- Its orientation towards artistic projects.
The purpose of the program is based on the premise that there is a conceptual European creative identity, which is and must primarily be a reference point in academics, culture and the art market. Its purpose, however, is not closed, but rather encompasses everything European; it is an invitation to diversity ... - Livre
Une première approche encyclopédique de l'Ecole de Düsseldorf
L’Ecole de Düsseldrof depuis les années 80 s’est imposée sur la scène internationale comme un centre artistique de recherche essentiel pour ce qui est de la photographie plastique contemporaine. Non sans lien avec les partis pris de l’art conceptuel, sont apport s’est caractérisé par le refus de toute narration et effet de fiction, au service d’une pure dénotation de l’état des choses. Cet ouvrage retrace les richesses et la diversité des approches de cette école en trois temps : d’abord par une étude du couple considéré comme à l’origine de l’école pour ses créations et son enseignement : Hilla et Bernd Beckert qui, en 1976, donnèrent un toit instit... - Vente
Auction : Modern and Contemporary Photographs - Villa Grisebach (Berlin)
312 lot numbers of modern and contemporary photography will be sold on Wednesday, May 28, at Villa Grisebach in Berlin.
Leading the sale is Irving Penn’s 1970 “3 New Guinea Men, (2 with Pipes),” a group portrait shot during a traditional dance festival, in a platinum palladium print of 1983. The portrait of the tribe members in noble embellishments, who in the photographer’s mobile tent studio assume a pose of highest concentration, is one of Penn’s most formidable works (€ 35,000/45,000).
From the estate of Otto Steinert, one of the pioneering German photographers of the post-war era, two of the most well-known subjects will be sold that document his preoccupation with finding way of personal photographic expression: “Rhythmus und Struktur,” 1951 (€ 20,000/3... - Vente
Sale - Phillips de Pury & Company
New York - Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming Photographs sale on Saturday 9 April 2011, to be held at its Park Avenue location.
“We are looking forward to bringing the Photographs preview to our flagship space at 57 Street and Park Avenue. The uptown location will be a fresh setting to showcase our exhibition, comprised of a diverse selection of classic and contemporary photographs to fulfill the needs of our international clientele.” Vanessa Kramer, Worldwide Director of Photographs.
Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #278, 1993, estimated at $200,000-$300,000, exemplifying the famed photographer’s poignant critiques of the fashion industry, juxtaposed by one of the most revered images i... - Exposition
The exhibition for Hilla Becher : « The Typological View »
Press release :
The Typological View—Exhibition for Hilla Becher
An exhibition by Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Cologne
With photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Max Becher and Andrea Robbins, as well as by Boris Becker, Laurenz Berges, Natascha Borowsky, Wendelin Bottländer, Frank Breuer, Susanne Brodhage, Ralf Brueck, Götz Diergarten, Volker Döhne, Chris Durham, Elger Esser, Claudia Fährenkemper, Anna Ferrer, Bernhard Fuchs, Ulrich Gambke, Edith Glischke, Claus Goedicke, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Manfred Jade, Jörg Paul Janka, Christof Klute, Matthias Koch, Christian Konrad, Yoonjean Lee, Katharina Mayer, Ralph Müller, Thomas Neumann, Simone Nieweg, Tata Ronkholz, Martin Rosswog, Thomas Ruff, Jörg... - Exposition
Exhibition: ELGER ESSER IRIDES
From 27 August to 31 October, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is showing a solo exhibition with new works by photographer Elger Esser.
The exhibition comprises two series of works, in which Esser focuses on the garden of entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) as well as on the motif of sunset. Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, the topic of the last exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris (2011), is now followed by a further landscape with a Weltbild projected on to it. The leitmotiv of the exhibition is the iris: the iris as a flower, the iris of the sun, the iris of the photography.
Esser’s latest works were developed in the garden of famous entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre in Sérignan-du-Comtat in the county of Vaucluse. The scientist and author of Souvenirs Entomologiques lived there with his fam... - Exposition
LANDSCAPE IN MY MIND
In spring 2015, the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is presenting a comprehensive exhibition showing positions in contemporary landscape photography. »Landscape in my Mind« is a mental journey through different imaged articulations of the concept of landscape. The focus will be on contemporary neo-Pictorialist strategies: painterly tableaus in monumental format are placed in contrast to the sober objectivity of conventional black-and-white photos.
Bernhard Fuchs
Güterweg Dobring (Straßen und Wege), 2005
C-Print, 28 x 28 cm
Courtesy Bernhard Fuchs
© Bernhard Fuchs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn und Bildrecht, Wien, 2014
Thus Elger Esser, for instance, does not see himself primarily as an artist-photographer, but as a picture-maker and landscape painter, who realises his works using phot... - Exposition
«Nocturnes à Giverny», photographies de Elger Esser à la Galerie Photo du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie
Avec l’aide du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, le photographe allemand Elger Esser, né a Stuttgart en 1967, s’intéresse depuis 2010 aux jardins de Claude Monet à Giverny. Ce spécialiste de la photographie de paysage, élève de Bernd Becher à la Kunstacademie de Düsseldorf jusqu’en 1997, possède une passion pour la culture française et ses lieux évoquant À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust. Collectionneur d’images, de livres et de cartes postales, Elger Esser intitule d’ailleurs « Combray » une partie de ses photographies en référence aux descriptions de paysages données par Proust dans son grand œuvre. De nuit, le photographe allemand a enregistré avec de longs temps de pose, sur ses plaques grand format, l’atmosphère du ja... - Exposition
Elger Esser : « Galería Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca »
Elger Esser lives in Düsseldorf. From 1991 to 1997 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bernd Becher; in 1996 he was accepted in the master class and attained his diploma in 1997. From 2006 to 2009 he was a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design in the Department of Media Art. This was followed in 2008 by a guest professorship for photography at the Folkwang School in Essen. In 2010 Elger Esser won the Rhineland Art Prize and in 2012 he was awarded a working scholarship for the Hanse- Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst. Since the mid-1990s his works have been shown in many exhibitions in both national and international museums, and also have found their way into international collections and museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museu... - Exposition
Les Eaux précieuses/Eaux sauvages des plus grands photographes
L’année 2012 est l’année de l’eau. Un important colloque et de nombreuses rencontres sur cette thématique auront lieu sur le territoire des Bouches-du-Rhône. Dans ce cadre, la collectivité a souhaité que ses principaux lieux d’exposition proposent un temps dédié à cet élément. Dans le même esprit que l’exposition sur le cirque « Parade », il a été demandé à Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, spécialiste de la création photographique et commissaire de l’exposition, de donner à voir plusieurs époques et divers traitements de cet élément par les yeux des plus grands photographes.
La galerie d’art d’Aix-en-Pro... - Exposition
Der Rote Bulli - Stephen Shore and the New Düsseldorf Photography
Stephen Shore as the American inspiration for the renown German Becher class ? With this spectacular thesis the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is focusing for the first time on an important chapter in the recent history of photography: the transatlantic influence on photography in the 1970s and 1980s. Right at the heart of this chapter is a friendship between three artists that was forged in New York in the year 1973. It was in this sprawling American metropolis that the 26-year-old Stephen Shore met the Düsseldorf photographer Hilla Becher, whose typological photographic documentation of water-towers, which she had put together with her husband, Bernd Becher, had gone on display at Ileana Sonnabend’s renowned gallery the previous year. Two years later, Stephen Shore and the Bechers became the only col... - Exposition
Elger Esser - EIGENZEIT
Elger Esser's photographs give us the impression that we just had a déjà vu: his magical images of river landscapes, bridges, villages, and coastlines evoke distant memories even if we have never been at even a single location where the pictures were taken. The artist, born in Stuttgart in 1967, consciously alludes to Marcel Proust by setting out, again and again, "in search of lost time" in his poetic and melancholic photographs. This also reflects in his choice of photographic techniques: His recent heliogravures, an almost forgotten technique dating from the 19th century, will be exhibited for the first time from November 28, 2009 to April 11, 2010 in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and, afterwards, in the Museum for Modere Kunst Arnhem. This first large overview of his oeuvre presents around 50 larg... - Exposition
True North exhibition
True North features the work of seven contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based projects evoke the tradition of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Romantic antecedents, the works in this exhibition are historically and politically self-reflexive and call into question the notion of a pure, unchangeable North. Melancholic in tone, many of these photographs and video projections point instead to a certain loss of purity; they connect supposedly untouched northern landscapes to protagonists who attempt to inhabit, colonize, or commune with the harsh nature of the North.
Drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, True North focuses on elegiac imagery by a group of international artists who ...
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Pourquoi ? Quelle est la capitale européenne qui connaît aujourd’hui une prodigieuse effervescence artistique ? Berlin.
Quel est le pays qui a le plus d’écoles de photographie prestigieuses dans le monde ? l’Allemagne.
Quel est le magazine qui, chaque année, fait un état des lieux d’un pays à travers sa culture photographique ? L’Insensé Photo.
Vous l’aurez bien sûr deviné, le numéro de L’Insensé Photo, à paraître le 29 septembre 2009, est un spécial : « Berlin & Co, les photographes allemands ».
Comment ? Effectivement, il n’y a pas plus riche en photographie que cette culture si exigeante, au passé conceptuel et à l’avenir ouvert. 50 photo...
Program director Moritz Neumüller I Faculty include: Martin Parr | Simon Roberts | Alejandro Castellote | Javier Vallhonrat | Jean-François Chevrier | Elger Esser | Beat Streuli | Andreas Müller-Pohle | Dinu Li | Irina Tchmyreva | Joan Fontcuberta.
The European Master of Fine Art Photography is based on 3 fundamental premises:
- Its international nature, with a special focus on the European context.
- The excellence of its faculty.
- Its orientation towards artistic projects.
The purpose of the program is based on the premise that there is a conceptual European creative identity, which is and must primarily be a reference point in academics, culture and the art market. Its purpose, however, is not closed, but rather encompasses everything European; it is an invitation to diversity ...
L’Ecole de Düsseldrof depuis les années 80 s’est imposée sur la scène internationale comme un centre artistique de recherche essentiel pour ce qui est de la photographie plastique contemporaine. Non sans lien avec les partis pris de l’art conceptuel, sont apport s’est caractérisé par le refus de toute narration et effet de fiction, au service d’une pure dénotation de l’état des choses. Cet ouvrage retrace les richesses et la diversité des approches de cette école en trois temps : d’abord par une étude du couple considéré comme à l’origine de l’école pour ses créations et son enseignement : Hilla et Bernd Beckert qui, en 1976, donnèrent un toit instit...
312 lot numbers of modern and contemporary photography will be sold on Wednesday, May 28, at Villa Grisebach in Berlin.
Leading the sale is Irving Penn’s 1970 “3 New Guinea Men, (2 with Pipes),” a group portrait shot during a traditional dance festival, in a platinum palladium print of 1983. The portrait of the tribe members in noble embellishments, who in the photographer’s mobile tent studio assume a pose of highest concentration, is one of Penn’s most formidable works (€ 35,000/45,000).
From the estate of Otto Steinert, one of the pioneering German photographers of the post-war era, two of the most well-known subjects will be sold that document his preoccupation with finding way of personal photographic expression: “Rhythmus und Struktur,” 1951 (€ 20,000/3...
New York - Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming Photographs sale on Saturday 9 April 2011, to be held at its Park Avenue location.
“We are looking forward to bringing the Photographs preview to our flagship space at 57 Street and Park Avenue. The uptown location will be a fresh setting to showcase our exhibition, comprised of a diverse selection of classic and contemporary photographs to fulfill the needs of our international clientele.” Vanessa Kramer, Worldwide Director of Photographs.
Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #278, 1993, estimated at $200,000-$300,000, exemplifying the famed photographer’s poignant critiques of the fashion industry, juxtaposed by one of the most revered images i...
Press release :
The Typological View—Exhibition for Hilla Becher
An exhibition by Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Cologne
With photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Max Becher and Andrea Robbins, as well as by Boris Becker, Laurenz Berges, Natascha Borowsky, Wendelin Bottländer, Frank Breuer, Susanne Brodhage, Ralf Brueck, Götz Diergarten, Volker Döhne, Chris Durham, Elger Esser, Claudia Fährenkemper, Anna Ferrer, Bernhard Fuchs, Ulrich Gambke, Edith Glischke, Claus Goedicke, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Manfred Jade, Jörg Paul Janka, Christof Klute, Matthias Koch, Christian Konrad, Yoonjean Lee, Katharina Mayer, Ralph Müller, Thomas Neumann, Simone Nieweg, Tata Ronkholz, Martin Rosswog, Thomas Ruff, Jörg...
From 27 August to 31 October, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is showing a solo exhibition with new works by photographer Elger Esser.
The exhibition comprises two series of works, in which Esser focuses on the garden of entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) as well as on the motif of sunset. Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, the topic of the last exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris (2011), is now followed by a further landscape with a Weltbild projected on to it. The leitmotiv of the exhibition is the iris: the iris as a flower, the iris of the sun, the iris of the photography.
Esser’s latest works were developed in the garden of famous entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre in Sérignan-du-Comtat in the county of Vaucluse. The scientist and author of Souvenirs Entomologiques lived there with his fam...
In spring 2015, the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is presenting a comprehensive exhibition showing positions in contemporary landscape photography. »Landscape in my Mind« is a mental journey through different imaged articulations of the concept of landscape. The focus will be on contemporary neo-Pictorialist strategies: painterly tableaus in monumental format are placed in contrast to the sober objectivity of conventional black-and-white photos.
Bernhard Fuchs
Güterweg Dobring (Straßen und Wege), 2005
C-Print, 28 x 28 cm
Courtesy Bernhard Fuchs
© Bernhard Fuchs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn und Bildrecht, Wien, 2014
Thus Elger Esser, for instance, does not see himself primarily as an artist-photographer, but as a picture-maker and landscape painter, who realises his works using phot...
Avec l’aide du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, le photographe allemand Elger Esser, né a Stuttgart en 1967, s’intéresse depuis 2010 aux jardins de Claude Monet à Giverny. Ce spécialiste de la photographie de paysage, élève de Bernd Becher à la Kunstacademie de Düsseldorf jusqu’en 1997, possède une passion pour la culture française et ses lieux évoquant À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust. Collectionneur d’images, de livres et de cartes postales, Elger Esser intitule d’ailleurs « Combray » une partie de ses photographies en référence aux descriptions de paysages données par Proust dans son grand œuvre. De nuit, le photographe allemand a enregistré avec de longs temps de pose, sur ses plaques grand format, l’atmosphère du ja...
Elger Esser lives in Düsseldorf. From 1991 to 1997 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bernd Becher; in 1996 he was accepted in the master class and attained his diploma in 1997. From 2006 to 2009 he was a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design in the Department of Media Art. This was followed in 2008 by a guest professorship for photography at the Folkwang School in Essen. In 2010 Elger Esser won the Rhineland Art Prize and in 2012 he was awarded a working scholarship for the Hanse- Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst. Since the mid-1990s his works have been shown in many exhibitions in both national and international museums, and also have found their way into international collections and museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museu...
L’année 2012 est l’année de l’eau. Un important colloque et de nombreuses rencontres sur cette thématique auront lieu sur le territoire des Bouches-du-Rhône. Dans ce cadre, la collectivité a souhaité que ses principaux lieux d’exposition proposent un temps dédié à cet élément. Dans le même esprit que l’exposition sur le cirque « Parade », il a été demandé à Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, spécialiste de la création photographique et commissaire de l’exposition, de donner à voir plusieurs époques et divers traitements de cet élément par les yeux des plus grands photographes.
La galerie d’art d’Aix-en-Pro...
Stephen Shore as the American inspiration for the renown German Becher class ? With this spectacular thesis the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is focusing for the first time on an important chapter in the recent history of photography: the transatlantic influence on photography in the 1970s and 1980s. Right at the heart of this chapter is a friendship between three artists that was forged in New York in the year 1973. It was in this sprawling American metropolis that the 26-year-old Stephen Shore met the Düsseldorf photographer Hilla Becher, whose typological photographic documentation of water-towers, which she had put together with her husband, Bernd Becher, had gone on display at Ileana Sonnabend’s renowned gallery the previous year. Two years later, Stephen Shore and the Bechers became the only col...
Elger Esser's photographs give us the impression that we just had a déjà vu: his magical images of river landscapes, bridges, villages, and coastlines evoke distant memories even if we have never been at even a single location where the pictures were taken. The artist, born in Stuttgart in 1967, consciously alludes to Marcel Proust by setting out, again and again, "in search of lost time" in his poetic and melancholic photographs. This also reflects in his choice of photographic techniques: His recent heliogravures, an almost forgotten technique dating from the 19th century, will be exhibited for the first time from November 28, 2009 to April 11, 2010 in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and, afterwards, in the Museum for Modere Kunst Arnhem. This first large overview of his oeuvre presents around 50 larg...
True North features the work of seven contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based projects evoke the tradition of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Romantic antecedents, the works in this exhibition are historically and politically self-reflexive and call into question the notion of a pure, unchangeable North. Melancholic in tone, many of these photographs and video projections point instead to a certain loss of purity; they connect supposedly untouched northern landscapes to protagonists who attempt to inhabit, colonize, or commune with the harsh nature of the North.
Drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, True North focuses on elegiac imagery by a group of international artists who ...