"Twenty animals meet for the photographer's beauty contest. On Balthasar Burkhard's portraits all the animals are equally beautiful. The protagonist of the story is a shy donkey watching the cheerful activity. Markus Jakob describes the illustrious rendezvous with kind and humorous words. This publication is a reprint of the beloved children's book, which was first published in 1997. It will be released on the occasion of an extensive re ..."
"This book presents the many facets of Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard (1944–2010). 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 m ..."
"Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard (born 1944) makes large-format pictures that bring out the general contours of a repertoire of subjects--primarily bodies and landscapes (both urban and rural)--which are presented in dramatically stark black-and-white contrast to create an effect of extreme formal reduction and breathtaking scale. In his well-known portraits of the Alps, for example, he elicits both delicate detail and epic monumen ..."
"Die Tiere treffen sich zum Schönheitswettbewerb beim Fotografen. Markus Jakob beschreibt das illustre Stelldichein. Die Protagonistin der Geschichte ist die scheue Eselin. Auf Balthasar Burkhards Porträts sind alle Tiere gleichermassen schön. "Ein Lama in freier Natur zu fotografieren ist schon schwer genug. Aber versuchen Sie mal, ein Lama für ein seriöses Porträt zu gewinnen, ohne dass es davonläuft oder Sie anspuckt. Balthasar Burkh ..."
"Architecture has always been a natural subject matter for photographers, but for most of the twentieth century the practice of architectural photography has been a professional endeavor--anonymous photographs taken for clients for specific, commercial reasons. This book concerns itself with another aspect of the phenomenon: the photography of architecture as an art practice. It considers the work of seven contemporary photographers who ..."
"Justement célébrée pour sa rigueur formelle et sa capacité à nous faire découvrir ce que l''œil seul ne saurait voir, l''œuvre de Balthasar Burkhard est peut être mieux identifié que véritablement connu. Après les fragments de corps ou les ailes d''oiseaux cadrés frontalement et en toute objectivité, les explorations et les diversifications du point de vue se sont multipliées, en commençant par la série des vues aériennes de grandes mét ..."
"Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard‘s oeuvre continues the tradition of his compatriots Robert Frank and Jakob Tuggener, their ever-questioning search for the truth hidden in the surfaces of the world and their contemplative precision. This monograph provides the first comprehensive overview of his work from the 1970s to 2004. Burkhard’s black-and-white photographs are characterized by rich details, perfect focus, and a mastery of cra ..."
"The desert is a place of silence, mystery, and solitude, a setting and vehicle for dreams and myths, and the ultimate site of illusion and mirage. Europe discovered the desert in the nineteenth century via archaeological and geographical explorations. In that period too, photography was invented, and it went hand in hand with the discovery of the desert. Solitary travelers or members of scientific expeditions, artists, and photographers ..."
Eloge de l'ombre Musée Rath, Genève, du 6 juin au 7 septembre 1997 (French Edition) द्वारा BalthasarBurkhard, Aa.Vv., Musee Rath, Musâee Rath Paperback, 239 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1997 द्वारा Musees D'art Et D'histoire ISBN-13: 978-2-8306-0150-3, ISBN: 2-8306-0150-5
Shadow द्वारा BalthasarBurkhard Hardcover, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2001 द्वारा Lars Muller Publishers Import ISBN-13: 978-3-907044-96-4, ISBN: 3-907044-96-7
"With his monumental enlargements of the seventies--nudes, portraits, parts of the body--Balthasar Burkhard sustantially influenced the debate on the conditions of photography as an art form. In the works that followed, he explored the potential of form, size, and structure to render sublime the pictorial impact of archaic motifs. The publication traces Burkhard's--oeuvre through to his animal portraits and demonstrates the importance of ..."
"Images du désert : le néant, le silence, une distance infinie, la solitude ou bien les rencontres. Si ses représentations sont variées, une chose est certaine : le désert suscite une fascination, des interrogations et aussi beaucoup d'enthousiasme. Voici un ouvrage à parcourir comme un voyage dans les déserts. Principalement centré autour de la photographie, il a été publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée à la Fondation Cartier ..."
Helix Aspersa द्वारा BalthasarBurkhard Paperback, 48 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1991 द्वारा Imschoot ISBN-13: 978-90-72191-47-2, ISBN: 90-72191-47-1
"An artist's book by Balthasar Burkhard (1944-2010), presenting images of mollusks, eroticized in an Araki vein. 48 pages; 30 b&w plates, some opposite blocks of deep purple; 6 x 8.25 inches."
"In 2001, as part of their ongoing obsession with Francisco Goya's work, Jake and Dinos Chapman purchased one of the few remaining sets of the Disasters of War prints, made from the artist's original plates by the Goya Foundation in 1937. Produced by Goya between 1810 and 1820 as an attack on the horrors of war and its supposed romance and idealism, this group of 80 images has since become emblematic of art's moral voice, as well as a po ..."
"Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Günter Förg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jörg Sasse, "XL-Photography" presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum ..."
"This is a book about the beauty of nature—its force, silence, and eternal existence—and about cities seen from above as they keep growing, threatening to suffocate us. Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard presents work from the last ten years, images from all over the world—from Japan to the United States, from South America to Africa and the European Alps.The photographs are arranged in chapters, eachfo-cussing on one aspect of the wo ..."