Snow by
Thomas Flechtner. First edition (2002). First impression. Large format hardback in good condition. Binding firm. There are two bumps to bottom of boards. General wear to dust jacket. Now in removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Snow
In Thomas Flechtner's photographs, snow becomes a metaphor for timelessness, stillness, peace, distance, and also loneliness. Both civilization and the untouched countryside succumb to the white weight of this element, undergoing a transformation equally enigmatic and physically definitive, overwhelmingly magical and bitterly cold. Bereft of people, Flechtner's images of snow-covered places cause the viewer to pine for silence and transparency, for buildings bleached by their coats of hard frost and ice floes broken into unstable shards. In their elegant, often abstracted compositions and the diversity of their shades of white, Flechtner's photographs also admit the poignancy of the artist's perceptive abilities.
Artist Bio from Guggenheim
Born in 1961 in Winterthur, Switzerland, Thomas Flechtner studied at the École Supérieur d’Arts Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland, from 1983 to 1987. A series of photographs of Le Corbusier’s buildings in Chandigarh, India, won him a residency at a London studio in 1993. He remained in London until 1996 before returning to Switzerland. Where he then moved to La Sagne, a remote village of four hundred people close to the French border. It was there that he began his photographic studies of snow-covered environments.
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