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Published by:
Snoeck
56 pages
31.5 x 31.5 cm
Hardcover
2008
£43.00
Kippenberger
Published spring 2008, Albrecht Fuchs’ selection of photographs entitled 'Portraits' has been nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008. The press had already reacted euphorically to the publication of this book with large photographic spreads (in 'Die Welt' and the 'Frankfurter Rundschau'), crowning the photographer from Cologne the 'artists’ darling'. The fact that this is by no means an exaggeration is illustrated amply by the catalytic, initial series of photographs that Albrecht Fuchs took of Martin Kippenberger during 1995. He accompanied him to Dawson City, to his studio or to the Black Forest and in so doing, served his 'apprenticeship as a photographer', as he puts it. This huge phenomenon Kippenberger – constantly photographed everywhere, fine for many an excellent photographic idea, spontaneous and funny, as many erroneously suppose – did indeed understand his photogenic power very well and used this calculatedly in his dealings with photographers to tease out the most faithful representation of his idea. That wasn’t posing as such, and the degree to which Albrecht Fuchs has allowed himself to be inspired by this process has aided the photographer to find his own independent and sensitive style of portraiture. The book is published in a special format, carefully printed and finished, in a small, limited and signed edition numbering 800 copies.
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Misha KominekFirst Journey Home![]()
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Published by:
Kominek Gallery
96 pages
20.5 x 28.5 cm
Hardcover
Edition of 500
2013
Signed
£34.00
In the summer of 1997, Misha Kominek decided to go on a road trip by himself around Poland for the first time. He had just graduated from photography school in Barcelona and felt confident with his camera. Aside from family visits to his grandmother after the fall of communism in 1989, he had never been back to his homeland on his own since he emigrated to Germany at the age of twelve with his family in 1982. This book brings together some of the pictures taken during this first journey back home. It recalls permanent emotions and fleeting sensations alongside the bits and pieces of daily life. The photographer visited fruit markets, fields and villages, old historical places and unfamiliar cities, from his hometown of Gliwice to Auschwitz and Warsaw. He took pictures of the familiar and unfamiliar, attempting to track down forgotten friends, unearth hidden childhood memories and forge new emotions and illusions. In all, he was trying to determine how he would have felt if he had never left his country and how life would be if he stayed in Poland now that turning back was once again an option. First Journey Home is a tale about a man’s romantic return to his homeland, the garden of his childhood. It is a captivating homage to that very mellow moment of excitement that saw him off and has motivated him to keep up with photography ever since. Above all, it is about the journey itself and the wistful longing, the passionate yet futile willingness to recover one’s former innocence through insignificant things and black-and-white pictures. Imbued with a great amount of humor and irony, this intimate confession of youthful illusions under the summer heat provides a lasting statement on the everlasting fable of emigration in Europe and the craving for a sweet life.
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Misha KominekStrangers in Paradise![]()
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Published by:
Kominek Gallery
56 pages
34 x 43.5 cm
Edition of 500
2013
£31.00
Strangers in Paradise is about the beaches, attractions and sunburnt pilgrims of Lloret de Mar, the Costa Brava’s most famous holiday resort. It is also about the long summer of 1998 and young photographer Misha Kominek’s encounter with one of his major childhood fantasies. By the late 1990s, Lloret de Mar had developed a reputation as a holiday paradise for Central and Eastern European tourists eager for beach and sun. Long before the advent of low-cost air travel, this small but densely constructed coastal town in northern Catalonia became the target destination for young, penniless couples in love, teenagers celebrating their graduation from school, single men seeking amorous adventures and large families looking for affordable vacations. While Russians—currently Lloret’s most wealthy visiting community—predominate today, it used to be filled with Germans from the former East Germany, Czechs, Poles and many others. They would endure an infernal two to three-day trip by car or coach through a multitude of international borders, languages and currencies just to savor their small spot in heaven...
Strangers in Paradise consists of recollections of that moment of conclusion and reunion, the reunion of a wandering outsider with his own people in utopia, the discovery of the missing parts of his identity, its completion and the sweet acceptance of strangeness. Far from being anchored in clichés, this book offers a revealing insight of what lies beneath tourism, globalization, souvenirs and folklore.
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