Der Katalog zur Ausstellung “Tokoyo”

Das Berliner Gaslaternen-Freilichtmuseum befindet sich gleich am S-Bahnhof Tiergarten, an der Straße des 17. Juni Ecke Klopstockstraße: Es wurde 1978 gegründet, als der Großteil der Straßenbeleuchtung längst elektrisch funktionierte und die technisch wie ästhetisch altmodischen Modelle mehr und mehr aussortiert wurden. Etwa 90 Laternen sind entlang von Parkwegen permanent ausgestellt: die Modelle stammen aus den Jahren 1826 bis 1956 und aus insgesamt 36 Städten. Gleich außerhalb des Parks, die Straße des 17. Juni flankierend, sind zwei elektrische Straßenlaternen zu finden, die weder Teil einer Ausstellung sind noch irgendeine Art von Beschriftung aufweisen: die einen östlich, die anderen westlich der kreuzenden S-Bahn-Gleise. Ihnen ist diese Publikation gewidmet. Im Gründungsjahr des Freilichtmuseums, 1978, widmete der Religionsphilosoph Klaus Heinrich an der Freien Universität Berlin seine Vorlesung des Sommersemesters dem Thema des deutschen Klassizismus in der Architektur, oder genauer: der Willfährigkeit des Klassizismus zwischen Karl Friedrich Schinkel und Albert Speer. Sein Zitat bespricht die Speerlaterne, links. Einige Jahre früher, 1964, veröffentlichte der Verleger und Schriftsteller Wolf Jobst Siedler ein Buch mit dem Titel Die gemordete Stadt. Abgesang auf Putte und Straße, Platz und Baum. Sein Thema ist die Veränderung der Stadt Berlin und des Lebens in ihren Straßen. In Bild und Text beschwört Siedler ein “ursprüngliches”, kaiserzeitliches Berlin – und stellt dies polemisch einem gegenwärtigen, von Neuplanungen geprägten Berlin gegenüber. Sein Zitat bespricht die Peitschenlampe, rechts.

(Deutsche Ausgabe). Göttingen 2011. 26 x 31,5 cm. mit zahlr. Abb. Broschur. Text in deutscher Sprache. Steidl, [art-12813] ISBN 9783869304106

The American photographer Collier Schorr has been working in Southern Germany for the past 12 years, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. For Schorr, the German landscape is a map of her own history, both imagined and inherited. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist and family historian, the series Forest and Fields (Wald und Wiesen) tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration and family. Forest and Fields is intrinsically about book making, an ongoing suite of artist’s books that utilizes traditional notions of category to create different points of view. It is part diary, photo-annual, palimpsest, and scrapbook.

Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an explosive influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage to the elevated precincts of haute couture and directional ready-to-wear. As a style, punk is about chaos, anarchy, and rebellion. Drawing on provocative sexual and political imagery, punks made fashion overtly hostile and threatening. This aesthetic of violence – even of cruelty – was intrinsic to the clothes themselves, which were often customized with rips, tears, and slashes, as well as studs, spikes, zippers, D-Rings, safety pins, and razor blades, among other things. This extraordinary publication examines the impact of punk’s aesthetic of brutality on high fashion, focusing on its do-it-yourself, rip-it-to-shreds ethos, the antithesis of couture’s made-to-measure exactitude. Indeed, punk’s democracy stands in opposition to fashion’s autocracy. Yet, as this book reveals, even haute couture has readily appropriated the visual and symbolic language of punk, replacing beads with studs, paillettes with safety pins, and feathers with razor blades in an attempt to capture the style’s rebellious energy. Focusing on high fashion’s embrace of punk’s aesthetic vocabulary, this book reveals how designers have looked to the quintessential anti-establishment style to originate new ideals of beauty and fashionability.

Hippie Modernism examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter-design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus-Rucker-Co and ONYX; the installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills, Mark Boyle, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz and The Whole Earth Catalog; books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan of USCO, Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co, Ken Isaacs, Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX, Franco Raggi of Global Tools, Tony Martin, Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City, and new scholarly writings, this book explores the conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

FORMS OF FORMALISM ist eine Plattform die fotografische Arbeiten und schriftliche Beiträge um den Begriff des Forms sammelt. Die dritte Ausgabe enthält Fotoserien von Bas Princen, Mishka Henner und Maxime Guyon sowie Essays von Parasite 2.0, Moritz Ahlert und Bethan Hughes.   »What is formalism? The countless facets of such a notion keep us inquiring into its nature and possible manifestations. One may assume it is about conception or examination through aesthetic composition, whereas shape and structure — overall technical features — prioritise the medium over content and context. However, since the outset, we’ve been arguing and reflecting on what could represent a meaningful compendium of images and texts under the name of formalism. […] In the grey area between form and meaning, we further this inquiry with the hope of collecting and supplying significant points of view.« (Einleitung von Louis De Belle)

photographer of style

the continuing story of life on earth

coming soon

the movements of clouds around mount fuji

typology 1979

sacrifice your body

what is this thing called polaroid?

bildanalytische photographie 1968-1974

die photografien 1978-2010

trinity

confined space

the end of the world as we know it… (engl.)

the end of the world as we know it … (dt.)

cali coast in current colours

br motels

good kid

zu gross für mein zimmer

self-publish be happy – a diy photobook manual and manifesto

ernst thälmann

cluster

re-prise: 110 photos de heïdi specker

urbanism 1.01

marjorie

bitterfeld

von oben nach unsten und von unten nach oben

anomalien des frühen 21.jahrhunderts

stream of consciousness

choli cholie

areal

junge deutsche Fotografie 2012/2013

riva

stardust

big zep

biennale venedig 2015, deutscher pavillon

as dark as light

paparazzo

the book

alma

pomerode

color

en passant