Preview and Complete Catalogue Hatje Cantz Verlag Fall 2011

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❙ Photographs of Icelandic landscapes between nature, civilization,
and globalization
For over ten years now, Olaf Otto case—often in the middle of
Becker (* 1959 in Travemünde, the night—to capture nuances
Germany) has traveled the high by weak light, while at the same
northern spheres, sparing himself time generating the maximum
no hardship. On a search for the possible technical quality. Becker’s
never-before-seen image of pri- deliberately subjective perspective
meval landscape, where the eye goes beyond the notion of simply
encounters the boundaries of famil- reproducing reality, so that his
iar vision and nature becomes a images are of great clarity, breadth,
mirror of the soul, Becker observes and concentration. This publica-
distinctive geographic features tion contains previously published
and waits for the ideal light con- and new photographs of Iceland
ditions to manifest. Then, and only that show primordial landscapes
then, does he remove his heavy, alongside traces of civilization
large-format camera from its and economic crisis.
Collector’s Edition
with an original work
rby the artist
Bjarnafoss Iceland 1999
October 2011
Pigment print in folder, with book / Sheet size: 32.9 ⊗ 40.8 cm / Image size: 31.5 ⊗ 39.6 cm /
Limited edition of 25 + 5 a. p., signed and numbered
Preorder price € 580.00, after release € 680.00
Olaf Otto Becker
Under the Nordic Light.
Iceland 1999–2011
Texts by Petra Giloy-Hirtz et al.,
graphic design by Olaf Otto Becker
English / German
C. 144 pp., c. 84 color ills.,
34 × 27 cm, clothbound
C. € 58.00, $85.00, £55.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-3190-4
September 2011
Also available
Olaf Otto Becker
Above Zero
ISBN 978-3-7757-2437-1
Broken Line
ISBN 978-3-7757-1972-8
Exhibition schEdulE:
++ wilhElM-hacK-MusEuM,
ludwiGshafEn, sEptEMbEr 10–
noVEMbEr 6, 2011 ++ stadthaus
ulM, dEcEMbEr 11, 2011–
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