Paul

An artist's book by German photographer and artist Dörte Eißfeldt. This is one of 500 limited edition copies published by Nazraeli Press in 1992. This particular copy is edition number 338.

Dörte Eißfeldt is an artist who has worked across photography, video, and film. This book, "Pol," contains 21 monochrome photographs in a small 24-page format. Instead of a descriptive composition, a quiet tension is created through the distance between the photographs, the negative space, and the act of turning the pages.

The end of the book includes an essay by Eißfeldt titled "Der Körper der Fotografie." It discusses how photographs not only capture motifs but also possess their own bodies through paper, film, light, chemicals, and the darkroom process.

This is an interesting book for understanding Eißfeldt's work, which has explored how images emerge through various processes such as darkroom exposure and development, montage, and multiple techniques. It is also one of Nazraeli Press's early publications.

[Title] Pol
[Publisher] Nazraeli Press
[Publication Date] 1992
[Number of Pages] 24 pages (21 monochrome plates)
[Size] Approx. 1712927mm / 329g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] German
[Title Reading] POL
[Author/Editor, etc.] Dörte Eißfeldt/Photography & Text, Sybille Scharmann/Reproduction Photography, Chris Pichler/Publisher, Sarah Maurer/Publisher
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[ISBN] 9783923922147
[Condition] Used【4】Fair to Poor (scratch on back cover, slight corner creases, light tanning on edges)
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[Limited Edition] Limited to 500 copies, edition number 338
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Dörte Eißfeldt (born 1950)

Born in Hamburg, Germany. Photographer, artist.

From 1970 to 1976, she studied art education, fine art, and visual communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. She began creating photographic works in 1978 and also produced three short films by 1985. Starting from painting and film, she has presented works that traverse photography, video, and film.

In the 1980s, she created works using sequences, montage, and darkroom exposure and development processes in photography. Her work addresses the materiality of the photographic medium and the very process of image creation. From 1991, she taught at the Braunschweig University of Art.

Major works include "Pol," "Schneeball," "Montage," and "Seestücke."

Major awards include the Krupp-Stipendium für zeitgenössische Fotografie, the 1st "Junge Europäische Fotografen" Award (1985), residency grants at Barkenhoff Worpswede and Schloß Bleckede, a grant from the German Art Foundation, and an artist scholarship from Lower Saxony.

Major collections include Museum Folkwang, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Bibliothèque Nationale, Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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