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"Walter Keller founded the cultural magazine 'Der Alltag— Sensationen des Gewöhnlichen' in 1978 with Nikolaus Wyss, the art magazine 'Parkett' in 1984 together with Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt and Peter Blum, the photobook publishing house 'Scalo—Books and Looks' in 1991, and the 'Fotomuseum Winterthur' in 1993.
An impressive palmarès, to be sure, and yet it pales beside the exuberant creativity, curiosity, inspiration and energy with which for nearly forty years Walter Keller fascinated, nonplussed and motivated friends and foes alike, journalists and gallerists, curators and photographers, graphic designers and collectors—and often nearly drove them to distraction with his relentless tenacity.
On the night of September 1, 2014, Walter Keller died all of a sudden in the midst of preparing exhibitions on Dürrenmatt and the Cold War, as well as on contemporary Chinese photography and a thousand other ideas.
Walter Keller was a publisher, motivator, magazine maker, coach and networker. But above all he was an adorable friend and rousing companion. This book does not seek to explore or explain what he did, but how and why he turned his surroundings into exhibits in his very own world’s fair.
Edited, backed, curated, written and produced by people whose lives were changed and enriched by Walter Keller, this book is not a chronology of Walter Keller’s work, but an impressionistic patchwork, a subjective selection of testaments to his unbridled originality." (publisher's note, © Edition Patrick Frey, 2019)
An impressive palmarès, to be sure, and yet it pales beside the exuberant creativity, curiosity, inspiration and energy with which for nearly forty years Walter Keller fascinated, nonplussed and motivated friends and foes alike, journalists and gallerists, curators and photographers, graphic designers and collectors—and often nearly drove them to distraction with his relentless tenacity.
On the night of September 1, 2014, Walter Keller died all of a sudden in the midst of preparing exhibitions on Dürrenmatt and the Cold War, as well as on contemporary Chinese photography and a thousand other ideas.
Walter Keller was a publisher, motivator, magazine maker, coach and networker. But above all he was an adorable friend and rousing companion. This book does not seek to explore or explain what he did, but how and why he turned his surroundings into exhibits in his very own world’s fair.
Edited, backed, curated, written and produced by people whose lives were changed and enriched by Walter Keller, this book is not a chronology of Walter Keller’s work, but an impressionistic patchwork, a subjective selection of testaments to his unbridled originality." (publisher's note, © Edition Patrick Frey, 2019)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Theres Abbt, Bice Curiger, Regina Decoppet, Nan GOLDIN, Martin Heller, , Friedrich Meschede, Michael Rutschky, Joachim Sieber, Andreas Spillmann, Nikolaus Wyss
- Book design
- Hanna WILLIAMSON-KOLLER
- Format
- Broschierte Ausgabe, 19 x 26 cm., 432 S., 600 Farb-Abbildungen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!