Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage (First Edition)

ODERMATT, Arnold, ODERMATT, Urs

ISBN 10: 3882438665 / ISBN 13: 9783882438666

Edité par Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2003

A propos de cet article

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title debossed on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Arnold Odermatt. Text in German, French and English. Essay and editing by Urs Odermatt. Includes an exhibition history. Unpaginated (400 pp.), with 410 duotone plates beautifully printed full-bleed by Steidl. 12-7/8 x 10 inches. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (trace of wear to the edges at the rear side of the dust jacket). From the publisher: "With thoroughness and meticulous attention to detail, Swiss police officer Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss Canton Nidwalden, documenting accident scenes and property damage during his 40-year career. In his photos the drivers have gone and the victims have been removed. All that's left are the wrecked cars that tell the stories of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors and plain foolishness. The deformed steel takes on a malleable quality. The cars become sculptures that show the sudden end to many hopes and dreams, the intrusion of the unforeseen into well-regulated daily life. What results from the picture-taking policeman's official work is a selection of melancholic, sometimes funny and always strange atmospheric photos of our mobile society.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage (First Edition)
• Éditeur: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3882438665
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783882438666
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Obsession
  • Europe (Other)
  • Death/Loss
  • Transport
  • Rare Acquisitions

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Synopsis

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.