Böcker utgivna av Kehrer Verlag

The San Francisco Bay's salt ponds: A poweful photo story of nature's ability to regenerate and renewSalt of the Earth is a striking monograph, which skillfully captures humanity's impact on the environment. From ground-level perspectives to aerial shots, Barbara Boissevain's unique compositions of industrial salt ponds, accentuate the surreal qualities of landscapes altered by human activity. The artist's intention extends beyond crafting captivating visuals; her work seeks to raise awareness of pressing environmental concerns and inspire engagement in conservation- related activism. Boissevain's photographs of otherworldly landscapes compel us to reflect on the delicate balance between creation and devastation. Her powerful imagery challenges viewers to reassess their role in shaping Earth's future, ultimately urging us to confront the consequences of our actions and actively participate in preserving the environment for generations to come.

Oceano, California - A place of history and controversyThese are the dunes of Edward Weston's iconic photos; of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 buried movie set for The Ten Commandments; of the Dunites - the artists, poets, nudists, and mystics who lived in dune shacks from the 1920s to the 40s - hosts to Weston during shooting trips; and most fundamentally, of the native Chumash. These dunes now host a landscape of ATVs, inciting a decade-long legal battle with nearby residents over air quality. Lana Z Caplan attended Air Pollution Control District hearings, met with historians, scoured archives, and collaborated with yak titʸu titʸu yak tilhini Northern Chumash tribal leadership to excavate these histories in images. Ultimately, Oceano questions the legacies of colonization, photographic history, utopian ideology, and the future for the politically charged and environmentally threatened Oceano Dunes, a large State Park in southern San Luis Obispo County in the Guadalupe-Nipomo dunes complex.

Das Buch zeigt Mansudae Master Class, ein Dokumentarprojekt von CHE Onejoon, in dessen Rahmen er die Statuen, Denkmäler und Bauwerke erfasste, die das nordkoreanische Mansudae Art Studio seit den 1970er-Jahren in 18 afrikanischen Ländern errichtet hatte. Etwa die Hälfte dieser Länder bekam diese Bauten von Kim Il-sung geschenkt.Der Fotokünstler und Filmemacher CHE One-joon (*1979 in Seoul) war anfangs als Beweismittel-Fotograf tätig. Seine Werke wurden weltweit ausgestellt, u.a. auf der Taipei Biennale, im Palais de Tokyo, im Musée du quai Branly, auf der SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, auf der Architekturbiennale Venedig, im New Museum Triennial, im Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, auf der Busan Biennale.

Erosion durch Wasser, das unhörbar, aber stetig von den Gipfeln der Berge über Gletscher, Tropenwälder, Sanddünen, Eisfelder in Patagonien und europäische Gletscher in den Ozean und die Gewässer des New Yorker Hafens hinabrieselt. Die Bilder der Künstlerin Renate Aller bezeugen die Verbundenheit dieser voneinander entfernten Umgebungen und regen zum Gespräch über die unterschiedlichen (politischen) Landschaften an, in denen wir leben.Renate Aller ist Deutsche und lebt und arbeitet in New York. Ihre großformatigen Fotografien sind in der Sammlung zahlreicher Museen vertreten, darunter in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, der National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., der Yale University Art Gallery, dem George Eastman Museum, dem New York His-torical Society Museum, dem Musée des Beaux- Arts, Le Locle, und dem Parrish Art Museum.

Was, wenn es bei Fotografie mehr um Zuhören als um Sehen ginge? Die Fotoarbeit "Come Get Your Honey" nutzt diese Frage als eine Art Kompass beim Erzählen der Geschichten von trans* und queeren Geflüchteten in Berlin. Gleichzeitig ist sie der Weg des Fotografen, durch Verletzlichkeit, Freundschaft und Freude mit ihnen Beziehungen auf Augenhöhe einzugehen. Samet Durgun will sie als komplexe menschliche Wesen zeigen, die ihre neue Heimat in einem fremden Land und trotz eines extrem aufgeheizten politischen Klimas suchen. Andere Berichte über LGBTQIA+ und geflüchtete Menschen reduzieren diese häufig auf ihr Leid, indem sie ihre Körper mit dem Blick von Außen geradezu sezieren oder ihren Daseinskampf romantisieren.Samet Durgun (*1988) lebt in Berlin. Er ist Deutscher mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund und abchasischen Wurzeln. Er hat einen BA der Bogazici Universität, Türkei.

In early 2017, photographer Janet Holmes met a hen suffering from reproductive illness at the Wild Bird Fund in New York City, where she volunteered as a caregiver. During her search to find a permanent home for the hen after she was discharged from the Fund''s clinic, Janet Holmes discovered a network of people (primarily women) who turn their homes into sanctuaries for rescued chickens. She decided to make portraits of the chickens and their rescuers to honour both the birds who had suffered so much before their rescue and the people who invested so much love, time, and money caring for them.

At the beginning of her travels to China in 1998, Rosemarie Zens found a predominantly agrarian multi-ethnic state and initially photographed mainly landscapes and everyday scenes in urban and rural situations that reminded her of pre-modern times in our Western world. Within a time-frame of twenty years, ground-breaking developments took place. The memorable photographs show how China increasingly orients itself towards Western culture and how homogenizing forces such as science, technology and the global market influence individual life.

Beginning as a designer, Peter Fink (1907, Grand Rapids - 1984, New York City) travelled the globe from the 1950s to 1970s, moving in hidden streets and industrial towns of postwar Japan, France, Portugal, northern Africa, and the Middle East, photographing workers and street scenes. Arts and culture are recurring themes, as well as the life of workers, families or children in each new place he observed, but also expressive portraits and fashion, surreal still-lives, or his radical Refractions - reflections on architecture.

Israel has been in a near-continuous state of conflict since the day of its proclamation, some seventy years ago. It has sustained its military through compulsory service. The overwhelming majority of those in its Defense Forces were born in Israel, raised alongside this notion of service. But theirs is not the only story of Israel''s soldiers. There is a group of young men and women who come from countries around the world and volunteer into this legacy. For them, the price of admission into Israeli society is this very service. They are called ''lone soldiers.''

Susan Hefuna embraces a wide range of media, including drawing, sculpture, and installation as well as video, photography, and performance. Her textile works are exploring the visual and cultural signifiers that have come to embody her unique inter-cultural identity. The striking graffiti-like textile series Be One triggers varying emotions and feelings and reminds us that all is connected on this planet. This publication presents new textile works, drawings and films such as Angst Eats Soul, Munich, 2016, and Times Square, 2019.

Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence report issued in 2011. The report assessed the risk of residual contamination at sites in the United Kingdom used in the manufacture, storage, and disposal of chemical and biological weapons from World War I to the present day. Photographs of more than eighty sites take us to Dorset and Devon, the Peak District, the woodlands of Yorkshire, and the countryside of the Salisbury Plain, from the coastlines of East Anglia, the West Counties and Wales to the remote Scottish Highlands and the Irish Sea.