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'Document' is Leutwyler's 3rd book. It contains pictures from things of renowned persons: Mahatma Ghandi’s sandal, Alan Shepard’s golf club, Janis Joplin’s acoustic guitar, Jack Ruby’s handgun are some of these things we can have a deeper look and be impressed of the atmosphere which 's keeping us.
"Henry Leutwyler’s new book Document reveals the unseen, the humble, and the intimate within iconic moments: the first
moonwalk, political assassinations, the lives of musicians,
artists, and athletes. The product of twelve years of discovery
and dreaming, Document is a collection of portraits of things: Mahatma Ghandi’s sandal, Alan Shepard’s golf club, Janis Joplin’s acoustic guitar, Jack Ruby’s handgun. Leutwyler shows us these objects close up―straight on and without backdrop―a style that is equal parts still life, portraiture, and crime scene photography. Isolated from their contexts and owners, the objects have our full attention, and although we have never seen them, they feel utterly familiar. These are authentic objects, imperfect and unrestored, and in their scuffs, scratches, dirt and wear they powerfully evoke presence. They are the testaments of bodily histories, the traces of personalities, and the stuff of our collective memory. Document invites us to engage with our “icons” in wholly new ways, and to see our history differently, through the unexpected emotional charge of singular objects." (publisher's note)
"Featuring 124 photographs of objects, from Jimi Hendrix's red fender to John Lennon's blue-tinted glasses, it offers a humanizing document of society, especially when Leutwyler turns his attention to the footwear of the famous, like Michael Jackson's studded shoe with his initials written under one of the soles, Gene Kelly's beaten up yellow converse and Sylvie Guillem's ballet slippers." (Bianca Silva , in: Time Magazine)
"Though he's best known as a celebrity photographer, his photographs in Document showcase a different iteration of his minimalist style. Rather than celebrities, the pages of this book are filled with interesting objects owned by intriguing people from history, pop culture, the arts, and sports. The result is an encompassing and unconventional collection of images ranging from Mohandas Gandhi's wire-frame spectacles to Bob Marley's charred-black first guitar to Julia Child's madeleine baking tray. Seemingly ordinary items assume added significance when their owners' identities are revealed." (Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian)
About the photographer (*1961):
Born in Switzerland Henry Leutwyler lived and worked in Paris for a decade before moving to New York City in 1995, where he established his reputation as a portrait photographer.
Other titles by Leutwyler:l
'Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson' (2010)
'Ballet, A Portrait of The New York City Ballet' (2012).
"Henry Leutwyler’s new book Document reveals the unseen, the humble, and the intimate within iconic moments: the first
moonwalk, political assassinations, the lives of musicians,
artists, and athletes. The product of twelve years of discovery
and dreaming, Document is a collection of portraits of things: Mahatma Ghandi’s sandal, Alan Shepard’s golf club, Janis Joplin’s acoustic guitar, Jack Ruby’s handgun. Leutwyler shows us these objects close up―straight on and without backdrop―a style that is equal parts still life, portraiture, and crime scene photography. Isolated from their contexts and owners, the objects have our full attention, and although we have never seen them, they feel utterly familiar. These are authentic objects, imperfect and unrestored, and in their scuffs, scratches, dirt and wear they powerfully evoke presence. They are the testaments of bodily histories, the traces of personalities, and the stuff of our collective memory. Document invites us to engage with our “icons” in wholly new ways, and to see our history differently, through the unexpected emotional charge of singular objects." (publisher's note)
"Featuring 124 photographs of objects, from Jimi Hendrix's red fender to John Lennon's blue-tinted glasses, it offers a humanizing document of society, especially when Leutwyler turns his attention to the footwear of the famous, like Michael Jackson's studded shoe with his initials written under one of the soles, Gene Kelly's beaten up yellow converse and Sylvie Guillem's ballet slippers." (Bianca Silva , in: Time Magazine)
"Though he's best known as a celebrity photographer, his photographs in Document showcase a different iteration of his minimalist style. Rather than celebrities, the pages of this book are filled with interesting objects owned by intriguing people from history, pop culture, the arts, and sports. The result is an encompassing and unconventional collection of images ranging from Mohandas Gandhi's wire-frame spectacles to Bob Marley's charred-black first guitar to Julia Child's madeleine baking tray. Seemingly ordinary items assume added significance when their owners' identities are revealed." (Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian)
About the photographer (*1961):
Born in Switzerland Henry Leutwyler lived and worked in Paris for a decade before moving to New York City in 1995, where he established his reputation as a portrait photographer.
Other titles by Leutwyler:l
'Neverland Lost: A Portrait of Michael Jackson' (2010)
'Ballet, A Portrait of The New York City Ballet' (2012).
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 30 cm., 208 pp., 123 color ills., English