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Giorgio Wolfensberger : Foto Povera

Title
Giorgio Wolfensberger : Foto Povera / editor and text, Urs Stahel.
Publication
Zürich : Edition Patrick Frey, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Stahel, Urs,
  • Wolfensberger, Giorgio J.
Description
215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 26 cm.
Summary
Giorgio Wolfensberger was born in 1945 in Zürich, grew up in Winterthur and died in 2016 in Umbria, which he'd made his adoptive geographical and political home. He was not only an industrial photographer, filmmaker, slide-show specialist, expert on and writer for the Swiss modern dancer and dance teacher Suzanne Perrottet, sleuth extraordinaire for archival photographs; he was also a collector and photographer equipped with a seventh sense for the things of this world. He seems to have been a magnet for the peculiarities of everyday life, departures from the norm, the play of objects, the humorous and the grotesque, as though his eyes, nose and fingers were probes immersed in physical reality. Whether on assignment for an exhibition project or a book, roaming freely on the prowl in the city or driving around the countryside, he always discovered something unusual in the commonplace, something of his own in the general, something rich in the poor, something strange in the norm. This book brings together his artistic freelance photography for the first time, to form a cabinet of curiosities, a variegated cabaret of things. Beginning with the black-and-white documentary photography of his first years in Italy, he gradually developed a rich, humorous, colorful photo povera, an enchanting, pensive dance of poor plain things. - Urs Stahel.
Series Statement
Edition Patrick Frey ; No. 279
Uniform Title
  • Edition Patrick Frey (Series) ; No 279.
  • Giorgio Wolfensberger.
  • Giorgio Wolfensberger. English.
Subjects
Note
  • Title from cover.
Language (note)
  • Texts in German and English.
Call Number
JQF 20-569
ISBN
  • 9783906803791
  • 3906803791
LCCN
9783906803791
Title
Giorgio Wolfensberger : Foto Povera / editor and text, Urs Stahel.
Publisher
Zürich : Edition Patrick Frey, [2018]
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Edition Patrick Frey ; No. 279
Edition Patrick Frey (Series) ; No 279.
Language
Texts in German and English.
Added Author
Stahel, Urs, author, editor.
Wolfensberger, Giorgio J. Photographs. Selections.
Added Title
Giorgio Wolfensberger.
Giorgio Wolfensberger. English.
Other Standard Identifier
9783906803791
Research Call Number
JQF 20-569
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