Faraway Focus. Photographers go Travelling (1880-2015)

Background information

"For more than 100 years, travel has been one of the great themes of photography. With colonial expansion and the emergence of tourism in the late 19th century, photographers traveled the world for the sheer joy of discovery, reporting from afar. It was not until the 1920s, moreover, that travel became an occasion for artistic exploration of the cultural, political, and social conditions of other countries. The pictures now arise as a spontaneous reaction to the unknown or proceed from conceptual ideas. Through these different positions, the volume 'Die fotografierte Ferne. Photographers on the Move (1880-2015)' illustrates in philosophical, media-critical or aesthetic ways how the view of the unknown has changed from colonial times to the globalized world.

Content

180 photographs in the volume 'Die fotografierte Ferne. Photographers on Journeys (1880-2015)' by fifteen famous as well as lesser-known photographers: Inside - Max BAUMANN (b. 1961), Kurt BUCHWALD (b. 1953), Marianne BRESLAUER (1909-2001), Tim GIDAL (1909-1996), Thomas HOEPKER (b. 1936), Sven JOHNE (b. 1976), Robert PETSCHOW (1888-1945), Hans PIELER (1951-2012), Wolf LÜTZEN (b. 1946), Evelyn RICHTER (b. 1930), Erich SALOMON (1886-1944), Hans-Christian SCHINK (*1961), Heidi SPECKER (*1962), Wolfgang TILLMANS (*1968), Karl VON WESTERHOLT (*1963), Ulrich WÜST (*1949), Tobias ZIELONY (*1973) - represent the major epochs and styles of photography from the modern period to the present. " (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Prestel Verlag, 2017)

About the photographers involved with their works

• Max BAUMANN, Kurt BUCHWALD, Marianne BRESLAUER, Tim GIDAL, Thomas HOEPKER, Sven JOHNE, Robert PETSCHOW, Hans PIELER, Wolf LÜTZEN, Evelyn RICHTER, Erich SALOMON, Hans-Christian SCHINK, Heidi SPECKER, Wolfgang TILLMANS, Karl VON WESTERHOLT), Ulrich WÜST, Tobias ZIELONY
  

Photo books of the photographers involved with their work

• BAUMANN, Max
  BUCHWALD, Kurt
  BRESLAUER, Marianne
  GIDAL, Tim
  HOEPKER, Thomas
  JOHNE, Sven
  PETSCHOW, Robert
  PIELER, Hans
  LÜTZEN, Wolf
  RICHTER, Evelyn
  SALOMON, Ernst
  SCHINK, Hans-Christian
  SPECKER, Heidi
  TILLMANS, Wolfgang
  WESTERHOLT, Karl von
  WÜST, Ulrich
  ZIELONY, Tobias