Arnold Odermatt: After Work

ISBN-13: 9783869309736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 348 str.

Arnold Odermatt; Urs Odermatt; Arnold Odermatt

Opis

Following Karambolage, On Duty and Off Duty (all published by Steidl), Arnold Odermatt's (born 1935) After Work presents us with more rediscovered masterpieces by a photographer who trained himself primarily through his police job in the small, secluded Swiss canton of Nidwalden. Odermatt has thus developed his own artistic fingerprint which served him well during his working days as well as after-hours. Off duty, Odermatt often volunteered to take pictures all around his canton. Most of those pictures were shot only once, developed on demand and then archived in the attic, sinking into oblivion. Luckily, the photographer's son found the treasure and takes care of its reevaluation. After Work is the fourth volume in a series of books that brings into focus this extraordinary work.

O autorze

Arnold Odermatt was born in the Swiss Canton of Nidwalden in 1925. He joined the police force in 1948 and retired in 1990 with the rank of first lieutenant, chief of traffic police and vice commandant of the Nidwalden Police Department. Hisphotographs have been exhibited atthe 49th Venice Biennale in 2001, at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Fotomuseum Winterthur.Urs Odermatt, born in Stans in 1955, studied film direction andscriptwriting with Krzysztof Kieslowski, and today works as a film and theater director. Since 1993, he has been editing and publishing his father's photography.