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Jules Spinatsch

Temporary Discomfort

Chapter I–V: Davos, Genoa, New York, Evian, Geneva

Jules Spinatsch was at the World Economic Forum and also attended the G8 summits at Davos and Evian. But rather than street fighting and handshakes, Jules Spinatsch shows winter nights in Davos, complete with floodlighted barbed wire, containers being used as barricades in Genoa, lonely TV reporters outside broadcast vehicles and sleepy guards in New York. Temporary Discomfort shows people waiting for the big event, which is revealed as meticulously planned down to the last detail.

Jules Spinatsch was at the World Economic Forum and also attended the G8 summits at Davos and Evian. But rather than street fighting and handshakes, Jules Spinatsch shows winter nights in Davos, complete with floodlighted barbed wire, containers being used as barricades in Genoa, lonely TV reporters outside broadcast vehicles and sleepy guards in New York. Temporary Discomfort shows people waiting for the big event, which is revealed as meticulously planned down to the last detail.

Winner of the Prix du Livre, Rencontres d’Arles 2005 Best Photography Book

Author(s): Jules Spinatsch

With contributions by Martin Jäggi, Jamie Patrick Shea

Design: W. Heininger

24 x 30 cm, 9 ½ x 11 ¾ in

186 pages, 115 illustrations

hardback

2005, 978-3-03778-047-3, German
English
Street Photography
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Jules Spinatsch

Jules Spinatsch (*1964 in Davos) studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and worked as a freelance photographer and photojournalist from 1995 on. Since 2000, he has been predominantly active as an artist with exhibitions at the MoMA, New York, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Tate Modern, London, Centre de la Photographie CPG, Geneva, Kunsthaus Zurich and the Kunstmuseum Chur, among others. In 2003, he started the Surveillance Panorama Projects, in which computer-controlled cameras generate new types of panoramic images from thousands of individual images. Temporary Discomfort (Lars Müller Publishers, 2005) won the award for best photography book in Arles in 2005. Spinatsch received the Swiss Art Award in 2004 and 2014.

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