HÜTTE, Axel - Night and Day & Frühwerk

Background information

This out-of-print double volume on the work of Axel HÜTTE accompanied his exhibitions in Düsseldorf, where some 70 large-format works created between 1995 and 2017 were presented, and at the Josef Albers Museum Bottrop, which focused on his early work with photographs taken between 1978 and 1995 and with this exhibition continued a series that began with Bernd and Hilla BECHER, continued with 'Mines + Ironworks'.

Content

The volumes 'Night and Day' and 'Frühwerk' are together in one slipcase.

Night and Day

The photo volume 'Night and Day' contains night and day images by Axel HÜTTE from 1995 to 2017, including previously unpublished works from Canada and the USA. He began his night cycle with sparsely lit landscapes. In later years, he focused his gaze on illuminated major cities in Europe, America and Asia. The landscape and architectural photographs surprise with unusual pictorial structures and perceptual phenomena. They are not documentary photographs. He found the motifs in large metropolises, on alpine glaciers or in the South American jungle.

Frühwerk (Early Work)

The volume 'Frühwerk' deals with the early period of the 'Düsseldorf School' and its protagonists. In the early work of Axel HÜTTE the pictorial language is recognizable, which was based on a formal reduction and clarity of the pictorial compositions. The goal was a visual language and iconic density that interprets the visible world. The book shows how he, as a young photographer, finds his creative path, develops the ideas of Bernd BECHER and thus makes his own contribution to contemporary photography. From 1978 to 1995 he interpreted architectural structures such as staircases and corridors in post-war apartment buildings, subway stations in Berlin, buildings and squares in London, Venice and Paris, and finally landscapes in Italy, Spain and Portugal; subjects that were later also worked on by other BECHER students.

About the German photographer, Axel HÜTTE (b. 1951, in Essen)

Photo books by, about and with works by Axel HÜTTE