Black album / Bernd Uhde ; Martin Feltes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feltes, Martin, author.

Contributor:

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Uhde, Bernd, 1950-.

Uhde, Bernd.

Aerial photography.

Photography, Artistic.

Geology in art.

Physical Description:

127 pages : color illustrations, portrait ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : seltmann+sohne, [2019]

Language Note:

Texts in German and English.

Summary:

From the helicopter, Bernd Uhde photographs the world in a vertical plan view. The purity of untouched nature is not the main thread in his enthralling repertoire of motifs - but rather the cultural landscape developed and designed by man. Therefore, coal tips, ore dumps and spoil piles compose the leitmotifs of the photographs compiled in this album, gleaming with a fascinating presence against black backgrounds.00All groups of works reflect the artist?s interest in shapes and colors, in structures and textures and in the funda-mental principles of composition. And for this exact rea-son, Bernd Uhde?s photographic position has repeatedly been compared to a painter?s view - and justifiably so.00His artistic œuvre is characterized by the talent of discovering the unusual and mysterious and at the same time highly sensuous facets of a place by looking at it from a vertical view. The artist discovers scenic "paintings? and the aesthetic potential of these visual finds is only unleashed and only reveals itself through the abstracted view from the distance.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Contains:

Uhde, Bernd, 1950- Photographs. Selections.

Black album.

Black album. English.

ISBN:

9783946688716

3946688713

OCLC:

1122171471