Edited by Bernhard Knaus. Text by Klaus Honnef, Renate Puvogel, Heinz Kattner.
Gas stations, landscapes and airports are among photographer and conceptual artist Ralf Peters' favored motifs. His images appear familiar, until disturbing details emerge: for example, in his Tankstellen (Gas Stations) series, logos and lettering have been removed. Peters (born 1960) presents his viewers with conundrums that are at once subtle and clear.
Featured images are Blue and Red in the Petrol Stations series, reproduced from Ralf Peters: Until Today.
"All Peter's works are based on his own photographs, taken with different cameras; they therefore have their origins in personal experience. Yet these photographs are only the material that the artist subsequently works on digitally. This is also why Peters doesn't think of himself as a photographer; rather, he uses photography to work with: he alters the photographs on the computer, combining individual elements, choosing for every series an individual format and a suitable size for its subject. Thus aesthetic principles always determine the final form of the artwork. Although his photographs aren't really forms of documentation, in the process of pursuing their artistic aims they do still express something about reality. And it precisely their existence as series that helps them to achieve this, for the process of looking at and comparing the different pictures encourages the viewer to reflect and to look for a meaning."
FORMAT: Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 212 pgs / 410 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $70 ISBN: 9783775726085 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 8/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Bernhard Knaus. Text by Klaus Honnef, Renate Puvogel, Heinz Kattner.
Gas stations, landscapes and airports are among photographer and conceptual artist Ralf Peters' favored motifs. His images appear familiar, until disturbing details emerge: for example, in his Tankstellen (Gas Stations) series, logos and lettering have been removed. Peters (born 1960) presents his viewers with conundrums that are at once subtle and clear.
