The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection. 40th Ed.

ISBN-13: 9783836591072 / Angielski / 2023

Christian Habermeier; Sebastian Jäger

Opis

More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe through almost 200 models.To further develop and tailor his products to athletes' specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic (to this day, many athletes return their shoes to adidas, often as a thank you after winning a title or breaking a world record). This collection now makes up the "adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world-which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jager have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years.Shot using the highest reproduction techniques, these images reveal the fine details as much as the stains, the tears, the repair tape, the grass smudges, the faded autographs.

It's all here, unmanipulated and captured in extremely high resolution-and with it comes to light the personal stories of each individual wearer. We encounter the shoes worn by West Germany's football team during its "miraculous" 1954 World Cup win and those worn by Kathrine Switzer when she ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, before women were officially allowed to compete; custom models for stars from Madonna to Lionel Messi; collabs with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Stella McCartneyor Yohji Yamamoto; as well as the brand's trailblazing techniques and materials.Accompanied by expert texts, each picture tells us the why and the how, but also conveys the driving force behind adidas. What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved them-but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports, design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler brothers and the founding of adidas until today.

Recenzje

"Dieser Band ist ein Füllhorn der Inspiration und eine wahre Fundgrube, die den Anspruch, die Einzigartigkeit und Originalität von adidas zeigt." Jacques Chassaing

O autorze

Christian Habermeier arbeitet seit 1989 als Fotograf und Designer. Er studierte Kommunikationsdesign und lehrte in den Jahren 2000 bis 2006 Fotografie und Digitale Illustration. Außerdem verfolgt er eigene Projekte in Kuba, Kenia, Nepal, Indien, der Schweiz und Hong Kong. Im Jahr 2000 gründete er das studio waldeck photographers und konnte 2013 seine lang gehegte Vision eines CO2-neutralen Studios umsetzen.

Sebastian Jäger studierte Design an der Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nürnberg mit den Schwerpunkten Bewegtbild und Fotografie. Dort lernte er 2005 den damaligen Dozenten Christian Habermeier kennen. Ihre gemeinsame Firma studio waldeck photographers betreut Kunden aus Industrie und Kulturbetrieb. Seit 2011 visualisieren sie die Bestände des historischen Archivs von adidas.