Here, Swiss artist Jules Spinatsch (born 1964) presents his photo series documenting Alpine ski slopes being prepared at night. Under the glare of cold floodlights, machines noisily turn nature into a tourist experience with snow cannons at full blast and bulldozers flattening the slopes.

Over the past 30 years, Swiss artist Erik Steinbrecher (born 1963) has been collecting and compiling photographs, illustrated books, newspaper and magazine photographs, archival footage and montages. This book provides a glimpse into his extensive collection in an associative collage.

English artist John Stezaker (born 1949) reexamines various relationships to the photographic image--as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines and postcards, and uses them as -readymades.- Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings. In this new volume, Stezaker started with found images from Hollywood's golden era. Using publicity shots of classic film icons, the artist splices and...