Bilder
Hans-Peter Feldmann
1968-1972
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Together with Gerhard Richter’s “Atlas”, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s “Bilder” represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organised through affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal “Mnemosyne Atlas”. An original thinker and iconographer, Feldmann is one of ...
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Bilder
Hans-Peter Feldmann
1968-1972
Hilden and Heidelberg: Self-published and Edition Staeck
Folder consisting of 13 unpaginated booklets [112 pp]
23 × 22 cm

Together with Gerhard Richter’s “Atlas”, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s “Bilder” represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organised through affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal “Mnemosyne Atlas”. An original thinker and iconographer, Feldmann is one of the most influential German conceptual artists of his generation. He regarded both high and vernacular photography as part of a shared democratic cultural heritage.


 


Beginning in the late 1960s, Feldmann became an avid collector of images and stories, producing a series of artist’s books titled “Bilder” (Pictures), which would become a central component of his practice. Today, these works are regarded as “one of the most important bodies of bookworks in the twentieth century” (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger).


 


The contents of these folders vary. The one in the Metabooks collection consists of thirteen thematic booklets, each devoted to a different subject, including football players, mountain peaks, people riding bicycles, lonely trees, and shoes arranged on a rhomboid-patterned floor.

Hilden and Heidelberg: Self-published and Edition Staeck
Folder consisting of 13 unpaginated booklets [112 pp]
23 × 22 cm

Together with Gerhard Richter’s “Atlas”, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s “Bilder” represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organised through affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal “Mnemosyne Atlas”. An original thinker and iconographer, Feldmann is one of the most influential German conceptual artists of his generation. He regarded both high and vernacular photography as part of a shared democratic cultural heritage.

 

Beginning in the late 1960s, Feldmann became an avid collector of images and stories, producing a series of artist’s books titled “Bilder” (Pictures), which would become a central component of his practice. Today, these works are regarded as “one of the most important bodies of bookworks in the twentieth century” (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger).

 

The contents of these folders vary. The one in the Metabooks collection consists of thirteen thematic booklets, each devoted to a different subject, including football players, mountain peaks, people riding bicycles, lonely trees, and shoes arranged on a rhomboid-patterned floor.

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Together with Gerhard Richter’s “Atlas”, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s “Bilder” represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organised through affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal “Mnemosyne Atlas”. An original thinker and iconographer, Feldmann is one of the most influential German conceptual artists of his generation. He regarded both high and vernacular photography as part of a shared democratic cultural heritage.

 

Beginning in the late 1960s, Feldmann became an avid collector of images and stories, producing a series of artist’s books titled “Bilder” (Pictures), which would become a central component of his practice. Today, these works are regarded as “one of the most important bodies of bookworks in the twentieth century” (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger).

 

The contents of these folders vary. The one in the Metabooks collection consists of thirteen thematic booklets, each devoted to a different subject, including football players, mountain peaks, people riding bicycles, lonely trees, and shoes arranged on a rhomboid-patterned floor.

Hilden and Heidelberg: Self-published and Edition Staeck
Folder consisting of 13 unpaginated booklets [112 pp]
23 × 22 cm

Together with Gerhard Richter’s “Atlas”, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s “Bilder” represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organised through affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal “Mnemosyne Atlas”. An original thinker and iconographer, Feldmann is one of the most influential German conceptual artists of his generation. He regarded both high and vernacular photography as part of a shared democratic cultural heritage.

 

Beginning in the late 1960s, Feldmann became an avid collector of images and stories, producing a series of artist’s books titled “Bilder” (Pictures), which would become a central component of his practice. Today, these works are regarded as “one of the most important bodies of bookworks in the twentieth century” (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger).

 

The contents of these folders vary. The one in the Metabooks collection consists of thirteen thematic booklets, each devoted to a different subject, including football players, mountain peaks, people riding bicycles, lonely trees, and shoes arranged on a rhomboid-patterned floor.

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Together with Gerhard Richter’s “Atlas”, Hans-Peter Feldmann’s “Bilder” represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organised through affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal “Mnemosyne Atlas”. An original thinker and iconographer, Feldmann is one of the most influential German conceptual artists of his generation. He regarded both high and vernacular photography as part of a shared democratic cultural heritage.

 

Beginning in the late 1960s, Feldmann became an avid collector of images and stories, producing a series of artist’s books titled “Bilder” (Pictures), which would become a central component of his practice. Today, these works are regarded as “one of the most important bodies of bookworks in the twentieth century” (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger).

 

The contents of these folders vary. The one in the Metabooks collection consists of thirteen thematic booklets, each devoted to a different subject, including football players, mountain peaks, people riding bicycles, lonely trees, and shoes arranged on a rhomboid-patterned floor.

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