Size Matters.

It overturns the familiar sense of scale.
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 When the size of a photo changes, the way the world appears changes.
 By manipulating the size of objects, subjects emerge, are removed from their context, exaggerated, and reinterpreted. They may appear to loom before our eyes or become blurred and receding. Perhaps we unconsciously read meanings and impressions from the "size" of photographs.
 Size Matters. Größe in der Fotografie (Scale in Photography) is a provocative and experimental book that explores how the dimensional flexibility of the photographic medium has played a powerful role in cultural, social and political contexts.
 Presenting photographs from the mid-19th century to the present day "at their original scale" - that is, actual size or as large as will fit on the page - the exhibition asks how size influences our relationship with photography.
 The book is supervised by Linda Konze, a leading figure in the history of photography and curation. She currently serves as head of the photography collections at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, where she has curated exhibitions such as a retrospective of former East German photographer Evelyn Richter. After studying history in Hamburg and Berlin, she earned a doctorate from Humboldt University Berlin in research on photographic media and community formation. She has extensive field experience, having studied at major art museums both in Japan and abroad as a fellow of the Krupp Foundation.
 The book features works by leading contemporary photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Duane Michaels, Seth Price, Katharina Seeferding, and Katrin Sonntag. It also features multifaceted essays by Linda Konce, Tomáš Dvorák, Ellen Haack, Lillian Habeler, Vera Kripsschild, Oliver Lugon, Bettina Papenburg, Steffen Siegel, Katrin Schöneck, Anja Schaermann, and Vera Tolmann. It also includes an excerpt from a conversation between Thomas Ruff and Florian Ebner.

 Turning Familiar Relations of Size Upside Down
 Everything changes when visuals are manipulated by altering the sizes of things: objects are thrown into relief, torn from their contexts, exaggerated, and reinterpreted. They move up close so we can study them or become blurry before our eyes. Shifts of scale in photography entails a significant change in meaning that often goes unnoticed. Photography can change its size with ease, nimbly expanding into a sweeping picture on a museum wall or shrinking down to a thumbnail on a smartphone screen. Photography creates miniatures of the world, but it can also show things in their true dimensions or in larger-than-life depictions and even let us see the invisible.
 The publication Size Matters. Größe in der Fotografie (Scale in Photography) turns the spotlight on how the medium's dimensional versatility is key to its powerful role in cultural, social, and political contexts. The experimental volume published in conjunction with the exhibition presents works dating from between the mid-nineteenth century and the present, in their full size—whether that is the entire picture or as much detail as fits on a page of the book. The presentation raises questions about the consequences of size for how we perceive and engage with photographic images.
 With works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Duane Michals, Seth Price, Katharina Sieverding, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kathrin Sonntag, and others; essays by Linda Conze, curator of the exhibition, as well as Tomáš Dvořák, Ellen Haak, Lilian Haberer, Vera Knippschild, Oliver Lugon, Bettina Papenburg, Steffen Siegel, Kathrin Schönegg, Anja Schürmann, and Vera Tollmann; and an excerpt from a conversation between Thomas Ruff and Florian Ebner.

 Publisher: DISTANZ
 Publication year: 2024
 Number of pages: 116
 Size: 320 x 230 mm
 Format: Hardcover
 Language: German
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 Condition: New
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