"With her latest photographic series Jessica Backhaus examines, universal questions of human existence. Based on her own life story she inquires after the sig- nificance of knowing the roots of one's own existence and to what extent it is possible to re-elaborate these—usually prescribed—roots. With her photographs she symbolically captures the essence of this search and of her life stages. Simultaneously, she pulls off the balancing act ..."
"The German-American photographer Jessica Backhaus has portrayed the village of Netno and its residents in Northern Poland. With a sure eye and an unusual color language, she points out the distinctive aesthetic of details she encountered: plastic flowers and crocheted pillowcases, images of saints and lace doilies, and cherries preserved in mason jars. The intimate character of the images suggests that the photographer must have develop ..."
"Jessica Backhaus is that rare photographer today who can capture nuances of everyday life in combination with a sensational feeling for color. Within all three of her published series, Jesus and the Cherries, What Still Remains, and One Day in November (Kehrer Verlag, 2005 and 2008), we witness the most subtle, yet vibrant use of color as it reflects off surfaces or embraces people. In her most recent series I Wanted To See The World, w ..."
"What was once, still is, and will forever remain is Jessica Backhaus's infallible instinct for pictorial composition, a deftness she continues to take to new heights. Her views of ostensibly prosaic scenes open up to us a cosmos of unforeseen meanings while evoking a mood of affectionate familiarity.Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography today. Her work is exhibited internationally and i ..."
"In her new series Jessica Backhaus sets out a quest for traces of time and meaning—things that once were, still are, and will stay forever. Some photographs date from her last year in New York, where she had lived for fourteen years, others tell of her radical break with the past and her return to her homeland in Europe. The personal and cultural changes caused her to contemplate the fragility of our emotions and existence—thoughts the ..."
"Jessica Backhaus embarks on her work with an obvious relish in experimentation. The photo artist draws inspiration from the simplicity of everyday things, from unassuming scenes and silence. The artist’s new trilogy brings together three series of approximately 40 works each. The first series, Beyond Blue, is devoted completely to colorful threads, staged against colored backgrounds. The viewer feels compelled to linger in this radical ..."
"It was Thursday, the 5th November 1992. I had no idea that on this particular day I would meet the legendary photographer Gisèle Freund and that it would have such an impact on my life.Jessica Backhaus’ book is a tribute to Gisèle Freund on what would have been her one hundredth birthday in December 2008, a testament to the friendship between the great photographer and the photography student in Paris during the 1990s. Intended as a pos ..."
""Turning points, in-between states, a beautiful kind of limbo that tugs at the heart and suggests stories of loss and remembrance. That is what photographs are, after all, memorials that stop time and hold it for a moment, for our contemplation. If Backhaus's photographs are partly memorials to lost combs and half-eaten apples, they surely allude, as well, to other things that have been lost along the way."--Jean DykstraFollowing the su ..."
"In 2009 photo artist Harvey Benge had the idea of getting a group of photographers together to shoot a book in a day. On June 21, 2010--the day of the solstice--ten of the world's leading photographers each shot a series for a book in different places around the world. The result is a truly unique collector's item, a boxed set including ten individual and elaborately designed hardcover books.Jessica Backhaus lives in Berlin and New York ..."
San Diego Noir (Akashic Noir) द्वारा Maryelizabeth Hart, JessicaBackhaus Paperback, 300 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2011 द्वारा Akashic Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-94-7, ISBN: 1-936070-94-4
"When it’s done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. San Diego Noir, a new 15-story collection by some of the region’s best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun.”--San Diego Union-TribuneBrand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha Lawrence, Diane Clark & Astrid Be ..."
"Finnish artist Jaako Heikkila has long been interested in various small and minority communities around the world. Here he meets people on the shores of the White Sea in Russia, in New York's Harlem and on the Brazilian island of Itaparica. He follows Armenians from their homeland to Los Angeles and Venice, listening to the history of their family three generations after the genocide of 1915. His empathy for his many subjects appears in ..."
"The German Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize her room-related installations of sound, light and music. Since the ’70s, Kubisch has explored the possibilities of sound; today, she is one of the most important artists in her field. This book provides a comprehensive overview of her work between 1980 and ..."
"This new and extended edition comprises a multitude of texts and images, bringing the works and concepts of the important sound artist Rolf Julius to life. Julius is one of the most significant artists in the border areas of music and fine art. Like John Cage, Julius works with the term of "silence." The sounds in Julius' works have spatial and physical qualities such as expanse, depth, weight and density."
"The German-American photographer Jessica Backhaus has portrayed the village of Netno and its residents in Northern Poland. With a sure eye and an unusual color language, she points out the distinctive aesthetic of details she encountered: plastic flowers and crocheted pillowcases, images of saints and lace doilies, and cherries preserved in mason jars. The intimate character of the images suggests that the photographer must have devel ..."