Balthasar Burkhard Photographer - Dtsch.-Engl.-Französ.

Enigmatic man, how did you recognize these natural and extravagant images with your gaze oscillating between a body you are discovering and another you aspire to?Laurent Busine This is a book about the beauty of natureits force, silence, and eternal existence and about cities seen from above as they keep growing, threatening to suffocate us. Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard presents work from the last ten years, images from all over the world from Japan to the USA, from South America to Africa and to the European Alps. The photographs are arranged in chapters, each focussing on one aspect of the worldThe Desert, River, Skies, Cities, Landscapes. Together, they add up to a poetic atlas, a vision of the beauties and horrors of the world today. Intense black-and-white images that can only be created with a photo camera. This is the first comprehensive monograph on this Swiss master of the sublime. A visual vocabulary of the world we live in, meditative and haunting, instilling peace and anxiety at the same time. A masterpiece of landscape and cityscape photography!

Product details

• Authors: Balthasar Burkhard
• Publisher: Scalo
• Languages: German, English, French
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9783908247746
• ISBN: 978-3-908247-74-6
• No. of pages: 127
• Weight: 2225 g
• Illustrations: m. zahlr. Fototaf.
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV