"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 ..."
"Street photography has a long and varied history, encompassing such artists as Walker Evans from the 1930s, Robert Frank from the 1950s, and Garry Winogrand from the 1970s, each of whom, along with other practitioners, siezed the medium as their own and extended it, creating something new. Open City brings together the work of 19 artists to examine the history of street photography over the course of the last half-century. It takes as i ..."
"Gebundenes Buch'Die Schule müsste der schönste Ort in jeder Stadt und in jedem Dorf sein, so schön, dass die Strafe für undisziplinierte Kinder darin bestünde, am nächsten Tag nicht in die Schule gehen zu dürfen.' Oscar Wildes Ausspruch wird in der Villa Monte, einer Privatschule im Schweizer Kanton Schwyz, zur gelebten Realität. Die Frage, was, wie und in welchem Tempo gelernt und gelehrt wird, findet hier eine simple Antwort: Die Kind ..."
"DAVID RIMANELLI, FRANCESCO CLEMENTE, MICHAEL KRÜGER. RICHARD FLOOD. PATRICK FREY
, CARL STIGLIANO, BICE CURIGER, GLENN O.BRIEN INSERT: WILLIAM WEGMAN LISA ..."
"Description: Yet Untitled collects together a dedicated selection of contemporary photography. Presented in a uniquely straightforward fashion, with strong nods to the grid, this volume presents work with a range of concerns and content. Included are photographers who focus on issues of documentation, such as the "Becherklasse" (Bernd & Hilla Becher and their former students Candida Hafer, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth); those who deal ..."
"Urban Views enacts a provocative dialogue between the large-format color photos of Swiss artist Beat Streuli and the black-and-white photography of Gabriele Basilico."
"Swiss photographer Beat Streuli (born 1957) draws connections between his early black-and-white photographs and more recent photographs, installations and video stills from the past seven years. Accompanying this chronology are essays on themes of urbanism, sociology, perception and media."
"The urban photographs of Swiss artist Beat Streuli (born 1957) record what he calls “the glamour of the usual”--people walking the streets in familiar states of pedestrian reverie, photographed with professional care (“glamour”) but without drama (“the usual”). Public Work 1996–2011 surveys his large-scale installations in public spaces."
"Beat Streuli's photographs of street scenes from the metropolises of the world offer momentary shots of everyday life. Usually, the protagonists of the pictures are ignorant of being photographed and are pinned down at moments in which they seem withdrawn and unaware of their effect on their surroundings, unconnected even when accompanied by another. Projected by Streuli as large-format slides or in endless loops on television screens, ..."