First edition of Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish by Sigmar Polke, First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Please see photographs for reference.

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This catalog accompanies the first museum retrospective of the photography of influential German multimedia artist Polke. His constant manipulation of negatives, paper, and print and use of double exposures and overprinting can be seen as direct influences from other media and are more aesthetically informed than the technical experiments undertaken by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 50 years earlier. In content, Polke shows a preference for abstract compositions and portraits, while in mood the works veer between ethereal and jocular, occasionally achieving both concurrently.