Background information
"The photo collection of the Swiss Zellweger Luwa AG, which has never been shown to the public before, founded in 1990 on the initiative of Ruedi and Thomas Bechtler, is today one of the best and most comprehensive collections in the field of conceptual, predominantly serial photography to the present and includes major works and central groups by John BALDESSARI, Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Sigmar POLKE, Imi Knoebel, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas RUFF, Andreas GURSKY, Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS, Roman SIGNER, Richard PRINCE, Jeff WALL and Hiroshi SUGIMOTO to Stan DOUGLAS, Ken Lum or Gabriel Orozco.
Content
The extensive, bilingual compendium 'Through the Looking Brain' examines the spectacular collection in essays by Stephan Berg, Konrad Bitterli, David Campany, Stefan Gronert and Dora Imhof. 240 pages, 743 illustrations (719 of them in color). "(© Hatje Cantz, 2011)
About the participating photographers
John BALDESSARI, Bernd & Hilla BECHER, Sigmar POLKE, Imi Knoebel, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas RUFF, Andreas GURSKY, Peter FISCHLI & David WEISS, Roman SIGNER, Richard PRINCE, Jeff WALL, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Stan DOUGLAS, Ken Lum, Gabriel Orozco.