About Thomas Weski (*1953 in Hanover)

Thomas Weski is Professor for Cultures of the Curatorial at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. He studied Visual Communication in Kassel and was curator at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover and at the Museum Ludwig Cologne, Deputy Chairman of the 'Foundation for Photography and Media Art with Archive Michael Schmidt' and Deputy Director at the Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Photo publications by and with participation of Thomas Weski

'A International Photo Triennial' (1992); 'Siemens Fotoprojekt' (1993); 'ADLER, Gosbert - Die Zelle' (1994); 'NIXON, Nicholas - Familienbilder' (1994); LAWLER, Louise - For Sale' (1994); 'HERNANDEZ, Anthony - Landscapes for the Homeless' (1995); 'ADAMS, Robert - What we bought: the new world' (1995); 'SCHMIDT, Michael - U-NI-TY' (1996); 'FREUND, Gisèle - Gesichter der Sprache' (1996); 'Sex & Crime' (1996) 'RENGER-PATZSCH, Albert - Meisterwerke' (1997); 'GOSSAGE, John - There and Gone' (1997); 'SHORE, Stephen - Photographs 1973-1993' (1998); 'MIKHAILOV, Boris - Les Misérables' (1998); 'WALLACE, Ian - Clayoquot Protest' (1998); 'EGGLESTON, William. Hasselblad Award' (1999); 'WELLING, James - New Abstractions' (1999); 'SHIBATA, Toshio - Quintessence of Japan' (1999); . 'BALDESSARI, John - While Something is Happening' (2000); 'How You Look at It' (2000); 'ADAMS, Robert - The New West: Landscapes' (2000); 'SCHMIDT, Michael - Frauen' (2000); 'BÄCKSTRÖM, Miriam - Set Constructions 1995-2000' (2000); 'ADAMS, Robert - Summer Light' (2001); STRUTH, Thomas - Portraits' (2001); 'BECHER, Bernd & Hilla - Typologies' (2002); 'Landscape. Landscape' (2002, with photographs by Robert ADAMS, Joachim BROHM, Laurenz BERGES, Bernhard FUCHS, Simone NIEWEG.); 'Every photograph a picture.' (2003); 'Cruel and Tender' (2003); 'EGGLESTON, William - Los Alamos' (2003); 'DERCON, Chris - Partners' (2003); 'ADAMS, Robert - Turning back' (2005); 'Click Doubleclick' (2006); 'ADAMS, Robert - Along Some Rivers' (2006); 'GURSKY, Andreas - Munich Catalog' (2007); 'Presentation Representation' (2007); 'Darstellung, Vorstellung' (2007); 'Photography, Made in Zürich' (2007); 'Ydessa Hendeles. The Teddy Bear Project' (2007); 'EGGLESTON, William - Democratic Camera. 1961-2008' (2008); 'PARR, Martin - Parrworld' (2008); 'SCHALLER, Matthias - The Mill' (2008); 'PARR, Martin - Postcards' (2008); 'HECHENBLAIKNER, Lois - Off Piste: An Alpine Story' (2009); 'Ruhr Views' (2010); 'SCHMIDT, Michael - 89/90' (2010); 'BROHM, Joachim - Ohio' (2010); 'WALL, Jeff - Transit' (2010); 'GURSKY, Andreas - Istanbul Modern' (2010); 'Streetlife and Homestories' (2011); 'Photography Calling! ' (2011); 'Cphoto V1: Genesis' (2011); 'Arno Schmidt as Photographer' (2012); 'BERGES, Laurenz - Early then' (2012); 'EGGLESTON, William - Chromes' (2012, 2022); 'RUFF, Thomas - Works 1979-2011' (2012); 'Well Connected' (2012); 'Cultures of the Curatorial' (2012); 'EGGLESTON, William - From black and white to color' (2014); 'Photography Vol. 4: The Contemporary Era 1981-2013' (2014); 'Martin Parr: Bad Weather (Books on Books, Vol. 17, 2014); 'RUFF, Thomas - Editions 1988-2014' (2014); 'EVANS; Walker - Depth of Field (2015); 'Werkstatt für Fotografie 1976-1986' (2016); 'AP CP BL 1' (2016, works by Luc SANTE and Christian PATTERSON); 'STRUTH, Thomas - Figure Ground' (2017); 'RICHTER, Gerhard / Michael Schmidt - GRAU' (2018); 'SCHMIDT, Michael - Waffenruhe' (new edition 2018); 'DIJKSTRA, Rineke - The Louisiana Book' (2018); 'SCHMIDT, Michael - Berlin-Wedding' (new edition 2019); 'Perspectives' (2020); 'SCHMIDT, Michael - Photographs 1965-2014' (2020); 'HOCH, Matthias - BER 2019' (2021); 'WESELY, Michael - Neue Nationalgalerie' (2021); 'MAYER, Christa - My Mother, My Sister and I' (2022); 'SINGH, Dayanita - Dancing with My Camera' (2022)


This version of the book 'EIN-HEIT' (U-NI-TY) is a re-edit. Originally published in 1996, Michael SCHMIDT investigated the question of 'unity', tracing the symbolism & iconography of political systems, their propaganda & the images of people they project.
from 60,00 € Weight 1.3 kg
This photo book, 'From Black and White to Color', contains some exceptional, as yet unpublished photographs and shows the development, breaks and above all the radicalism of William EGGLESTON when he started taking photographs in color in the late 1960s.
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First published in 1974, Robert ADAMS' photobook 'The New West' is now considered a photobook classic, along with 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS and 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK as seminal photobooks exploring American culture and society.
from 198,00 € Weight 1 kg
The book 'Turning Back' by Robert ADAMS documents and observes the results of greed so unrestrained that they are indistinguishable from those of nihilism. It reflects what was lost, what is retained, and what we value as a people with a common history.
58,00 € Weight 1.9 kg
HC with dust jacket, ca. 18 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., (9,5 x 7 in.), 50 duotone b/w ills. text language: English
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'Dancing with my camera' is the most comprehensive publication on Dayanita SINGH to date. It presents her work, contains works from the 80s, a new series and the works 'Museum of Chance', 'Museum of Shedding', 'I am as I am', 'Go Away Closer' & 'Box 507'.
40,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
'Die Farbe Grau' combines photographs by Michael SCHMIDT - the series 'Berlin-Wedding' (1976-1978) and 'Waffenruhe' (1985-1987) with several pictures by famous artist Gerhard RICHTER from the years 1965 to 1974 as well as the work 'Siegel/Grau' from 1991.
39,80 € *
The out-of-print photo volume 'The Mill' (Die Mühle) by Matthias SCHALLER is a document of the living and working spaces of Bernd and Hilla BECHER, a former paper mill in the Düsseldorf district of Kaiserwerth, in which the couple lived from 1961 to 2003.
from 48,00 € Weight 1 kg
This catalog volume accompanied the first comprehensive presentation since 1998 in Germany and since his major solo exhibition in New York. It presents a picture series selected and compiled by Andreas GURSKY himself with the main works.
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Laurenz BERGES - photographer of the Dusseldorf School - concentrates on the details of abandoned apartments, vacant houses and neglected courtyards, looks for zones of urban ambiguity and transforms them into poetic but strictly documentary photographs.
49,80 € *