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Katharina Gruzei - Bodies of Work

Fotohof 2018 ISBN 9783902993649 Acqn 28884
Pb 22x29cm 224pp 144col ills £30

Examining the process of work is a dominant concern for Austrian artist Katharina Gruzei. The
series "Bodies of Work" focuses on the Linz shipyard OSWAG. Camera in hand Gruzei
accompanied the construction of a large ferry over a period of two months. Man and machine are
seen to be perfectly attuned to each other in the industrial production process. Gruzei views the
"working body" in this context as a "site for the negotiation of the always topical discourse on the
place accorded to work and the changes taking place within it". The artist took photographs also
at times when the shipyard was not in operation. As darkness settled on the premises and the
noise of the machines died down, motifs began to appear in a different light altogether. The
defamiliarized appearance of the scenery leads away from a specific segment of represented
reality to novel aspects of time and space. The photographic impact of this series therefore goes
far beyond a purely documentary approach.

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Nadja Bournonville – Intercepted

Fotohof 2018 ISBN 9783902993656 Acqn 29144
Pb 17x24cm 144pp 120ills 60col £23.50

Following on from her previous work, A Conversion Act (Fotohof 2012), Nadja Bournonville picks
up the trail of a spy story that occurred in her own family during the First World War in her new
artist's book entitled Intercepted. Referencing the disappearance of the writing on twelve
postcards treated with special ink which the protagonist, Lady Eva von Bournonville, had
smuggled in, the artist unleashes a veritable firework of alienations from her photographic source
materials. Entirely in keeping with the ideas of Surrealism the artist uses photograms, dyes,
reversals, double-exposures, negative prints, and etched surfaces. Old techniques complement
this humorous interaction that knows no bounds, shifting enigmatically between fact and fiction.

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Wolfgang Zurborn - Karma Driver

Fotohof 2018 ISBN 9783902993632 Acqn 29145
Pb 18x24cm 110pp 100col ills £26.95

"The life in the streets of the Indian megacities New Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Bangalore
fascinated me. In all parts of the society I could see the traces of westernization and on the other
side I could feel the deep routedness of the citizens in the traditional Indian culture. The vivid
urban chaos full of crazy contradictions is showing the permanent competition between the
different value systems. Billboards, advertising campaigns, film- and election posters, fashion
images are mixed together with omnipresent god idols and historical symbols in the cityscape."

The lust for all this attractions in everyday situations is permanently forcing changes in social life.
Indian Culture is influenced by the spiritual idea of Karma and this effects, that every single action
in life is very important and has consequences. By taking photographs Wolfgang Zurborn was
driven by this catchable tension, looking for all the normally overseen details and not illustrating
distant ideologies. His respectful view on this overwhelming, mesmerizing and also sometimes
irritating world is also meant as a statement of tolerance for different ways of life and religions.

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Ludwig Thalheimer - Costa Rica Time Warp

Fotohof 2018 ISBN 9783902993724 Acqn 29146
Hb 18x24cm 208pp 112ills 48col £33.50

In Costa Rica Time Warp there are children who Ludwig Thalheimer met when he was in Costa
Rica in 1986. He met them in public places, on the streets where they sold newspapers, washed
cars, and helped out in their parents' stalls. These are children who sought refuge on the streets,
or those who lived in sheltered gated communities. They told the photographer about their lives,
their desires and their dreams for the future. After more than 30 years, Ludwig Thalheimer
wanted to know what had become of these children. In 2017 he set out to search for them, to find
them again, to photograph them again and to record their lives. The book provides an
unsentimental yet touching insight into very different individual life stories.

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