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Klaus Merkel

Album of Stones

Photographer and artist Klaus Merkel travels the world in his search for structures in nature and architecture that exhibit overlapping patterns and configurations, significant deviations and parallels, and resonate in juxtaposition. In this extension of that program, he has turned his attention to stones and rock landscapes and their patterns. It is a process that he insists takes patience, sometimes years, both in allowing the force of the photograph to make itself felt over time and in seeking the perfect pair, the photograph that will reverberate with another in tandem.

Photographer and artist Klaus Merkel travels the world in his search for structures in nature and architecture that exhibit overlapping patterns and configurations, significant deviations and parallels, and resonate in juxtaposition. In this extension of that program, he has turned his attention to stones and rock landscapes and their patterns. It is a process that he insists takes patience, sometimes years, both in allowing the force of the photograph to make itself felt over time and in seeking the perfect pair, the photograph that will reverberate with another in tandem.

Part of the Trilogy of Stone and Time

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Author(s): Klaus Merkel

With photographs by Klaus Merkel

With an essay by Klaus Merkel

Design: Integral Lars Müller

24 x 30 cm, 9 ½ x 11 ¾ in

160 pages, 110 illustrations

hardback

2005, 978-3-03778-058-9, English
CHF 30.00

Klaus Merkel

Klaus Merkel (*1940) is a German photographer and author. He studied art history and archaeology at the University of Munich and painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin before devoting himself entirely to his passion: photographing stones. Merkel traveled the world for his photographs of rock formations, cemeteries, places of worship, old tree trunks and landscapes that look as if they have been petrified. His main artistic work is represented in the illustrated books "Reading Time in the Text of Nature" (1997), "Album of Stones" (2005) and "Trees like Stones" (2013), which are also available as a signed, limited "Trilogy of Stone and Time" edition (Lars Müller Publishers, 2013).

CHF 30.00