WESSEL, Henry

About the American photographer, Henry WESSEL (1942-2018)

Henry WESSEL is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the 'New Topographic Movement' in photography. He holds a BA in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters of Arts in Photography from the State University of New York. In 1969 Wessel moved to Los Angeles. Here he turned primarily to the landscape that has been changed by man. In 1975 he took part in the 'New Topographics: Photographs of the Man-Altered Landscape' exhibition with Robert ADAMS, Lewis BALTZ, Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Stephen SHORE, which is not only the name for a new photographic movement, but also a turning point in American landscape photography. In other of his groups of works he devoted himself to night shots, architectural documentations and the city of Las Vegas.

Photo books by and with contribution of Henry Wessel

'The New Topographics' (1981); 'House Pictures' (1992); 'Nightwalk' (2000); 'Henry Wessel' (2006); 'California and the West / Odd Photos / Las Vegas / Real Estate Photographs / Night Walk' (2006); 'New Topographics' (2009, 2010); 'The New Topograhics. Texte und Rezeption' (2010); 'Waikiki' (2011); 'Reframing the New Topographics'; 'Incidents' (2013); 'Traffic / Sunset Park / Continental Divide' (2016); 'A Dark Thread' (2019); 'Walkabout / Man Alone / Botanical Census' (erscheint 2021); 'Hitchhike' (erscheint 2021)

WESSEL, Henry - Traffic. Sunset Park. Continental Divide
WESSEL, Henry - Traffic. Sunset Park. Continental Divide
Traffic/Sunset Park/Continental Divide' by Henry WESSEL presents three independent bodies of work by the photographer, each being a precise sequence arranged to give the viewer the experience of what it felt like to pass through the territory described.
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WESSEL, Henry - Retrospective
WESSEL, Henry - Retrospective
This retrospective photo volume about American photographer Henry WESSEL tracks his contribution to the 'New Topographics Movement' of the 1970s and continues through more than thirty years of incisive observations on the American social landscape.
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WESSEL, Henry - Hitchhike
WESSEL, Henry - Hitchhike
'Hitchhike' by Henry WESSEL documents his westward journey from the grassy farmlands in the Midwest to the wide, open, dusty landscape further west. The sequences draw from his archive and includes images of barns, gas stations, traveling salesmen....
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WESSEL, Henry - Incidents
WESSEL, Henry - Incidents
'Incident' is a photo volume compiled by Henry WESSEL from 27 previously unpublished photographs. Every incident is recorded decisively and concisely with the aesthetic immediacy of a snapshot. 'As mysterious as a clearly described fact.' (© WINOGRAND)
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WESSEL, Henry - Waikiki
WESSEL, Henry - Waikiki
In black-and-white photo volume 'Waikiki', the American New Topographic photographer Henry WESSEL documents the recreational behavior of Americans in the 1970s and 1980s as well as the encroachment on nature using the example of the beach on Honolulu.
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WESSEL, Henry - Walk About. Man Alone. Botanical Census
WESSEL, Henry - Walk About. Man Alone. Botanical Census
The photo book 'Walk About/Man Alone/Botanical Census' by photographer Henry WESSEL, presents three independent bodies of his work from the past five decades. Each is a precise sequence recreating the experience of passing through the territory described.
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New Topographics
New Topographics
Der vergriffene Band 'New Topographics' dokumentiert die historische Bedeutung der gleichnamigen Ausstellung u.a. mit Arbeiten von BALTZ, BECHER & SHORE, aus der sich ein neuer Ansatz für die Landschaftsfotografie ergeben hat und die bis heute fortwirkt.
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WESSEL, Henry - A Dark Thread - ORIGINAL VERPACKT!
WESSEL, Henry - A Dark Thread - ORIGINAL VERPACKT!
For this volume, 'A Dark Thread', over a dozen renowned noir authors were commissioned to write a short story in response to one or more of Henry WESSEL's b/w photographs. In this first edition, it is French authors and the photographs that inspired them.
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