Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Elger, Dietmar.
2. Wiegand, Wilfried.
3. Wiese, Stephan von.
4. Moorhouse, Paul.
5. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
6. Kunsthalle Bremerhaven.

Description

1. 143 p. : photos (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

1. "With a career spanning almost sixty years, Gerhard Richter is among the most prominent painters of the twentieth and twenty-first century, well-known for his monumental abstract and photo-realistic works. But beyond the many instantly recognizable paintings, relatively little is still known about how Richter works, his artistic processes and philosophy. For this book, Belgian photographer Benjamin Katz--a fifty-year veteran of the art world himself--had the opportunity to capture on film the notoriously camera-shy artist at work. Armed with a pair of compact Leicas, he photographed and hand-developed eighty extraordinary black-and-white portraits of Richter painting, sketching, and mulling over his work. A keen observer, Katz shoots his subjects candidly and without the use of flash. Because of this, his photographs reflect genuine moments in the lives of their subjects, often with an almost palpable sense of humor, melancholy, or love. In addition to Richter, Katz has photographed Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Rosemarie Trockel, Martin Kippenberger, and Georg Baselitz, among many other legends of the contemporary art world, exhibiting his photographs in some of the world's biggest institutions. Katz's striking photographs of Richter will be equally well-received for the insight they offer into his celebrated career."--Publisher description.

Subject

1. Katz, Benjamin, 1939- > Exhibitions
2. Richter, Gerhard, 1932- > Pictorial works
3. Katz, Benjamin, 1939-
4. Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
5. Katz, Benjamin 1939-
6. Richter, Gerhard 1932-
7. Katz
8. Porträtphotographie
9. Schwarzweißphotographie
10. Richter
11. Atelier
12. Atelier
13. Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
14. Artists > Germany > Pictorial works
15. Photographie artistique > Expositions
16. Artistes > Allemagne > Ouvrages illustrés
17. Artists
18. Photography, Artistic
19. Porträtfotografie
20. Schwarzweißfotografie
21. Germany
22. Bremerhaven <2012>

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs
2. Pictorial works

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, February 5-March 18, 2012; Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 3-September 24, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

1. Text in English, French and German.