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With a foreword by Armin Walpen

2006 published by Scheidegger & Spiess

Text by Peter Eisenman and Hanno Rauterberg
Photographs by Hélène Binet and Lukas Wassmann 

Published in collaboration with Swiss Televison (SRG SSR idée suisse).
With essays by Peter Pfrunder und Michail Shishkin  

Switzerland has world-class photographers in Robert Frank, Werner Bischof and René Burri. Photosuisse is now taking a look at contemporary Swiss photography, which enjoys an international reputation with names like Thomas Flechtner, Annelies Strba, Balthasar Burkhard, Luc Chessex and Georg Gerster. Photosuisse is a “musée imaginaire” of current Swiss photography, putting forward some quite different viewpoints between the covers of a book. However diverse the positions presented might be, they share the specific precision of the photographic eye. Photosuisse sees itself as a photographic reader. It provides detailed information about 28 viewpoints, and an essay investigates whether there is a specifically Swiss way of shooting the world. The book is accompanied by two DVDs with film portraits of the 28 artists. These were produced by Swiss Television (SRG SSR idée suisse) as the book’s editor.

With contributions by Manuel Bauer, Stefania Beretta, Balthasar Burkhard Olaf Breuning, Luc Chessex, Olivier Christinat, Christian Coigny, Hans Danuser, Nicolas Faure, Alberto Flammer, Thomas Flechtner, Katrin Freisager, Georg Gerster, Michael v. Graffenried, Monique Jacot, Alain de Kalbermatten, Peter Knapp, Urs Lüthi, Gian Paolo Minelli, Minkoff/Olesen, Jean Mohr, Reto Rigassi, Luciano Rigolini, Gaudenz Signorell, Annelies ˇStrba, Beat Streuli, Alberto Venzago, Christian Vogt

Since completing the thermal bath in Vals/ Graubünden (1996) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bregenz/Austria, Peter Zumthor has become one of the most renowned architects in Europe. His buildings and projects inspire enthusiasm with their peerless exactitude, their poetry and a radical, independent aesthetics and vocabulary of forms. This publication is the first complete survey of Peter Zumthor’s euvre. The book presents his eight buildings (1986–1997), with a photo essay by Hélène Binet.
The descriptive commentaries were written by Peter Zumthor himself.

“Sonja with Samuel-Maria”, 1994

This important Swiss contribution (1924–1928) to the history of the avant-garde took a radical, volatile, and entertaining stand on current developments in architecture and construction. Poetry by Majakovsky was printed alongside scientific articles on technical innovations. ABC thrived on provocative contradictions!

Although it lasted for only two issues, March/ April and May, 1922, and was written largely in Russian, “Vesc’” exercised an enormous influence on other contem-porary periodicals. With the revival of interest in the Russian avant-garde, the magazine – or rather El Lissitzky’s cover design – has attracted renewed attention. Now, for the first time, the extraordinary contents of this short-lived magazine are made accessible in annotated translations and summaries.

“Die Kunst liegt in der Natur. Wer sie herausreissen kann, der hat sie.”

Woodcut “Pestwurz”

With a text by Adolf Behne

Serial No. 5-9

The magazine appeared in nine issues, with Nr. 6/7 as a double issue.

With the increasing integration of the spirale in the Concrete Art movement, the panel format was abandoned beginning with Nr. 4. Only a few copies of the quadratically formatted issues are here available.