Axel Hutte: Fruhwerk. Early Works / Night and Day - Hardcover

Goertz, Ralph; Liesbrock, Heinz; Long, Thomas A.; Weski, Thomas; Wismer, Beat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3960982429 ISBN 13: 9783960982425

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2017

Synopsis

German photographer Axel Hütte (born 1951), trained as part of the Düsseldorf School, travels around the world to find photographic subjects which allow him to explore the nature of perception. He has found his subjects in the metropolises of Las Vegas, New York, Tokyo and London, on Alpine glaciers and in the South American jungle. The resulting photographs feature unusual image structures and perceptional phenomena that surprise the viewer, straining the category of documentary photography. The manifestly real is suffused with an air of mystery and unreality in Hütte's dimly lit landscapes, illuminated cities photographed with long exposures and scenes that blur the boundaries between architecture and landscape.

Night and Day presents around 80 large-format nocturnal and daytime pictures made between 1995 and 2017, including previously unpublished photographs taken in North America, alongside a selection of early works made before 1995.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Early Works" is devoted to the years 1978 to 1995. Alongside portraits of colleagues and friends, which are presented here on a large scale for the first time, Hütte was particularly interested at the time in architectonic formations, such as stairwells and corridors in apartment buildings from the post-war era; underground sta-tions in Berlin; buildings and squares in London, Venice and Paris; and ultimately landscapes in Italy, which are inscribed with a special regulatory dimension by fragments of architec-ture. As different as the places in these photographs are, there is a common interest in their representation. "Night and Day" presents around 80 large-format nocturnal and daytime pictures from the years 1995 to 2017, including thus far unpublished works from Canada and the USA. Hütte began his nocturnal cycle with dimly-lit landscapes, before focusing his gaze on illuminated cities in Europe, America and Asia in later years

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3960982429
• ISBN 13: 9783960982425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Wismer Beat