Title & Author:

Balthasar Burkhard / [Balthasar Burkhard] ; [editors, Tobia Bezzola, Peter Pfrunder, Thomas Seelig, Marco Franciolli].

Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl Publishers ; Essen, Germany : Museum Folkwang ; Winterthur, Switzerland : Fotomuseum Winterthur ; Fotostiftung Schewiz ; Lugano, Italy : Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, [2018]
Göttingen, Germany : Steidl.
©2018

Description:

296 pages (4 foldout) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits (some color), photographs, 29 cm

Notes:
Statement of responsibility from page 294.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- Apprenticeship and early works -- Balthasar Burkhard - photographer / Martin Gasser -- Documenting the art scene -- Nature is dark and in twilight / Jennifer Gough-Cooper -- Wrecking ball / Tom Holert -- Some recollections of my friend Balthasar / Ralph Gentner -- Emancipation as an artist -- Chicago -- Profile of a lost work / Stefanie Unternährer -- Time in Chicago / Thomas Kovachevich -- Balthasar, the movie star - rediscovering Eiskalte Vögel (Icebound, 1978) / Markus Jakob -- Body and sculpture -- Structure and memory / Hendel Teicher -- Exhibition: Balthasar Burkhard / Thomas Seelig -- Portraits: types and individuals -- Architecture and applied photography -- Zofiscope / Balthasar Burkhard -- Aerial photographs -- The picture not taken / Adrian Scheidegger -- Homage to Courbet and the nineteenth century -- From Balthasar Burkhard to Balthasar Burkhard / Jacques Caumont in conversation with Françoise le Penven -- Corpus or career? Balthasar Burkhard in retrospect / Abigal Solomon-Godeau -- Morphologies of the world -- The public photographer / Laurent Busine -- A photographer is a photographer is a photographer / Florian Ebner -- List of works reproduced -- Biography -- Exhibitions.
Text in English, translated from the German.

Exhibitions:

"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"--Colophon.

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. This 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. Exhibition: 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).

ISBN:

9783958293427 (paperback)
3958293425 (paperback)

Subject:

Burkhard, Balthasar Exhibitions.
Burkhard, Balthasar Criticism and interpretation.
Burkhard, Balthasar Themes, motives.
Burkhard, Balthasar
Burkhard, Balthasar, 1944-2010.
Photography, Artistic 20th century 21st century Exhibitions.
Black-and-white photography 20th century 21st century Exhibitions.
Art, Swiss 20th century 21st century Exhibitions.
Male artists Switzerland 20th century 21st century Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle 21e siècle Expositions.
Photographie en noir et blanc 20e siècle 21e siècle Expositions.
Art suisse 20e siècle 21e siècle Expositions.
Artistes masculins Suisse 20e siècle 21e siècle Expositions.
Themes, motives
Male artists
Art, Swiss
Black-and-white photography
Photography, Artistic
Switzerland

Form/genre:

Essay
Exhibition.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
essays.
photobooks.
Photobooks
Essays
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Essais.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Burkhard, Balthasar, photographer, artist.
Burkhard, Balthasar. Works. Selections.
Bezzola, Tobia, editor.
Pfrunder, Peter, editor.
Seelig, Thomas, 1964- editor, author.
Franciolli, Marco, editor.
Busine, Laurent, author.
Caumont, Jacques, interviewee.
Ebner, Florian, author.
Gasser, Martin, 1955- author.
Gentner, Ralph, author.
Gough-Cooper, Jennifer, author.
Holert, Tom, author.
Jakob, Markus, 1954- author.
Kovachevich, Thomas, 1942- author.
Le Penven, Françoise, interviewer.
Scheidegger, Adrian, 1965- author.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, author.
Teicher, Hendel, author.
Unternährer, Stefanie, author.
Cowper, Simon, translator.
Museum Folkwang Essen, issuing body, publisher, host institution.
Fotomuseum Winterthur, issuing body, publisher, host institution.
Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland), issuing body, publisher, host institution.
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, issuing body, publisher, host institution.
Steidl Verlag, publisher, printer.
Germany Göttingen.
Germany Essen.
Switzerland Winterthur.
Switzerland Lugano.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308778
Call No.: BIB 254109
Status: Available