The Dusseldorf School is renowned around the world, and is today synonymous with high artistic standards and a highly diverse and new approach to the medium of photography. There has been no other art movement since the Bauhaus to possess such a worldwide appeal. This volume traces its ascendancy from the mid-1970s, when husband and wife team Bernd and Hilla Becher gave art photography an institutional roof. Filled with superb reproductions of the artists' best-known pictures, this impeccably bound and printed book offers the first encyclopaedic overview of this important movement.

The Dusseldorf School of Photography /anglais

Gronert, Stefan

Thames&Hudson

The German photographic movement commonly known as the Düsseldorf School of Photography has become synonymous with artistic excellence and innovation. It began in the mid-1970s at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under the instruction of the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their comparative grids of mundane industrial buildings captured with an objective and clinical eye. This school has not only birthed some of today's most important and successful photographers, but has also had a fundamental and lasting influence on the history of the medium. The Düsseldorf School of Photography presents over 160 images in a spectacular overview of the breadth of the Düsseldorf School from the early 1970s to today. This impeccable survey is filled with superb reproductions of the best-known photographs by three generations of key Düsseldorf artists: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth and Petra Wunderlich. With a scholarly text, extensive artist bios and a plate section dedicated to each of these artists, The Düsseldorf School of Photography offers the first comprehensive assessment of this important photographic movement―one that dominates the salesrooms and museums of our times.

The Düsseldorf School of Photography

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Aperture

An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings.
The artist Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) worked across a broad range of media―including photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and film―and in styles that varied from abstract expressionism to Pop. This volume in Afterall's One Work series offers an illustrated exploration of Freundinnen (Girlfriends 1965/66), one of Polke's important early paintings. Taken from a found image of two young women, and using the raster dots also found in mass media reproductions, Girlfriends offers a statement about the use and social function of images. 
Stefan Gronert approaches Girlfriends through its deliberate and elusive ambiguity, providing technical detail and historical background that allow some of the work's motivation and depth to become clearer. Gronert analyzes Polke's relationship to his tutors and peers, especially Gerhard Richter; describes the art historical context in which Polke worked; and discusses some of the social and political issues to which Girlfriends refers. Considering such topics as the distinction between Polke and Alain Jacquet in their use of photographed material, between Polke's use of the raster technique and that of Roy Lichtenstein, and the feminist discourse of the time, Gronert draws on a variety of critical interpretations of Polke's work, including some material that has not yet been translated into English.

Sigmar Polke: Girlfriends (Afterall Books / One Work)

History & Criticism

Afterall Books

Leon Battista Alberti’s 1435 treatise De pictura influenced generations of painters by suggesting that a painting should be approached as an open window. By the twentieth century, the window had transformed into a motif that would test the limits of painting. With his 1920 “Fresh Widow”--a replica of a French window with panes covered in black leather--Marcel Duchamp postulated a farewell to illusionist painting. This publication presents the development of window painting by artists such as Robert Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Gerhard Richter and many others.

Fresh Widow: The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp

YAU, John

Blom, Ina

FRANZ, Erich

Bippus, Elke

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Bild-Individualität: Die "Erasmus"-Bildnisse von Hans Holbein dem Jüngeren (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Schwabe & Co

The Düsseldorf School has become an acknowledged label, and today is synonymous with high artistic standards and a highly diverse and new approach to the medium. This book discusses three themes: 1. The work and teachings of Hilla and Bernd Becher who in 1976 gave artistic photography an institutional roof at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. 2. Three generations of celebrated artists have since emerged: Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Petra Wunderlich, Axel Hütte, Elger Esser, Laurenz Berges et al. 3. And finally the image factory, Grieger Lab, where the artists discovered the technical potential of large format photography. Today, Grieger Lab produces large prints for more than 150 artists the world over. The book offers for the first time an encyclopedic overview of the artists and introduces them with their best-known pictures. There has been no other art movement in Germany since the Bauhaus to possess such a worldwide appeal as this new Düsseldorf School.

Dusseldorf School of Photography

Individual Artists

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

The Düsseldorf School has become an acknowledged label, and today is synonymous with high artistic standards and a highly diverse and new approach to the medium. This book discusses three themes: 1. The work and teachings of Hilla and Bernd Becher who in 1976 gave artistic photography an institutional roof at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. 2. Three generations of celebrated artists have since emerged: Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Petra Wunderlich, Axel Hütte, Elger Esser, Laurenz Berges et al. 3. And finally the image factory, Grieger Lab, where the artists discovered the technical potential of large format photography. Today, Grieger Lab produces large prints for more than 150 artists the world over. The book offers for the first time an encyclopedic overview of the artists and introduces them with their best-known pictures. There has been no other art movement in Germany since the Bauhaus to possess such a worldwide appeal as this new Düsseldorf School.

Schirmer/Mosel

Thomas Ruff (born 1958) and James Welling (born 1951) are two of the most well-known photographic artists of the present day. They explore in their works the conditions of visual perception, also in relation to our use of the photographic apparatus, and the conditioning of our view of the world through photographic images. The exhibition " Dark Matter. Thomas Ruff and James Welling" and the accompanying catalog of the same name focus on works that wrest new possibilities from the photographic image and expand our capacity for imagination. We perceive our environment subjectively; we see and feel it against the backdrop of what we can grasp and understand in images and words that have been handed to us. About eighty percent of the matter in the universe consists of a substance we know little about: Dark Matter. Does the same apply to the photographic image? Does it hide more than it shows?

Dark Matter. Thomas Ruff & James Welling: Cat. Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Welling, James

Ruff, Thomas

Slifkin, Robert

Végh PhD, Christina

Snoeck Publishing Company

La Scuola di Dusseldorf. Fotografia contemporanea tedesca

Johan & Levi

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