Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage
by Urs Odermatt
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 3882438665
- ISBN 13
- 9783882438666
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About This Item
Steidl, 2003. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/Fine. As new copy in fine or better dust jacket. Stated first edition. Appears unread: pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked. Slight shelf wear to top of dust jacket. Unpaginated (400 pp.), with 410 duotone plates beautifully printed full-bleed by Steidl. Photographs by Arnold Odermatt. Text in German, French and English. Essay and editing by Urs Odermatt. Includes an exhibition history. Note that this is heavy or oversized book, for priority or international shipping please contact me to make special arrangement. With thoroughness and a meticulous attention to detail, Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss canton of Nidwalden between 1939 and 1993. For 40 years, the Swiss police office recorded the wrecked cars left in the wake of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors, and plain foolishness, in poignant, sometimes funny, and always strange atmospheric photographs. Though Odermatt was not formally trained as a photographer, he made images that evidence a studied appreciation for romantic landscape scenes and a simultaneous attention to the clinical detail of an accident of police procedure. He created them as a personal corollary to the documentary photographs that typically accompany police and accident reports in his picturesque Alpine country. Art historically, they call to mind such diverse sources as Weegee's scene-of-the-crime pictures from the 1930s and 40s, and Andy Warhol's interest in the banal spectacle of disaster and accident in the 1960s. Wholly original and surprising, beautiful and haunting, Odermatt's pictures were only recently introduced to the art world--when Harald Szeeman exhibited them at the 49th Venice Biennale, they were virtually unknown.
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- Bookseller
- Modern First Editions Boston (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001260
- Title
- Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage
- Author
- Urs Odermatt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 3882438665
- ISBN 13
- 9783882438666
- Publisher
- Steidl
- Place of Publication
- Gottingen, Germany
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- PHOTOGRAPHY, SWITZERLAND
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