nicole hollmann
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Nicole Hollmann »Out Of Focus«
The vibrant metropolis New York inspired Nicole Hollmann to transform its three-dimensional reality with all its myriad acoustic and olfactory facets into two-dimensionality through the medium of photography. The result is a series of large-format photographs that verge on the threshold of painting. Hollmann sacrificed the precise articulation and delineation of her subjects in favor of impressions of their forms and – above all – colors. Her pictures do not impose any particular reading on viewers, dictating how they should see the world around them. Instead, they challenge us to fill the space left open by the reduced pictorial information with our own experiences and emotions. The personal imagery that thus emerges is often more precise than the kind of obtrusively sharp focus that often conceals more than it reveals.
Edited by F.C. Gundlach, Texts by Hubertus Gaßner and Klaus Honnef
Hardcover, 28x22 cm (11x9 inch), 112 pages, 40 color illustrations, English/German, Published by Kehrer Verlag (Art Books Heidelberg) October 2011.
Photographer, collector and curator. F.C. Gundlach is considered to be the most important German fashion photographer of the post-war era. 1971 founder of PPS (Professional Photo Service), an innovative service company for photographers. 1975 founder of PPS Gallery. Curator of over 100 exhibitions at PPS Gallery, including among others Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans und Nan Goldin. Since the early 1980ies, Gundlach increasingly concentrated on collecting photographic works. Professor at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin since 1988. Established the F.C. Gundlach foundation in 2000. 2003 founding curator of the Haus der Photographie at the Deichtorhallen exhibition center in Hamburg, donation as a permanent loan of his collection »Das Bild des Menschen in der Photographie«. His retrospective exhibition ›F.C. Gundlach – Das fotografische Werk‹ was shown in Hamburg, Berlin and Nürnberg.
Art historian, curator, author and editor of publications on art. 1981–1991 assistant professor of art history at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. 1971-1981 active member of Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; organizer of numerous exhibitions. 1989–1992 acting manager of the documenta Archive in Kassel. 1993-2002 main curator at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. 2002–2005 managing curator at the Museum Folkwang. Managing curator at the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 2006.
Art historian and curator; studied sociology and history in Cologne. 1965–1970 contributing editor and head of department at Aachener Nachrichten newspaper. 1970–1974 managing curator of Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster. 1974–1999 managing curator of LVR-LandesMuseum in Bonn. 1970 curator of the exhibition ›Umwelt-Akzente‹ in Monschau, the first outside art exhibition in the world. 1972 co-organizer of documenta 5 in Kassel and of documenta 6 in 1977. From 1980 to 2004 professor of theory of photography at Kunsthochschule Kassel. Since 2000 freelance curator, lecturer, art expert and author. Klaus Honnef is a Chevalier of the »Ordre des Arts et des Lettres« of France and was awarded the Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie in 2011.
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