Paul

An artist's book by German photographer and artist Dörte Eißfeldt. This limited edition of 500 copies was published by Nazraeli Press in 1992. This copy is edition number 338.

Dörte Eißfeldt is an artist who has worked across photography, video, and film. This book, "Pol," features 21 monochrome photographs in a small 24-page format. Instead of a descriptive layout, a quiet tension is created through the distance between the photographs, the empty spaces, and the turning of the pages.

At the end of the book is a text by Eißfeldt titled "Der Körper der Fotografie." It discusses how photographs not only capture motifs but also possess their own physicality through paper, film, light, chemicals, and darkroom processes.

This is an interesting book for understanding Eißfeldt's work, which has explored how images emerge through darkroom exposure and development, montage, and multiple processes. It is one of Nazraeli Press's early publications.

[Title] POL
[Publisher] Nazraeli Press
[Publication Date] 1992
[Number of Pages] 24 pages (21 monochrome plates)
[Size] Approx. 1712927mm / 329g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] German
[Title Reading] POL
[Author/Editor] Dörte Eißfeldt/Photo & Text, Sybille Scharmann/Reproduction Photography, Chris Pichler/Publisher, Sarah Maurer/Publisher
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[ISBN] 9783923922147
[Condition] Used【4】Fair to Fair-minus (scratches on back cover, minor corner creases, light tanning on edges)
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[Limited Edition] Limited to 500 copies, Edition Number 338
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Dörte Eißfeldt (1950-)

Born in Hamburg, Germany. Photographer, artist.

From 1970 to 1976, she studied art education, fine arts, and visual communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. She began producing photographic works in 1978 and also made three short films by 1985. Starting with painting and film, she has presented works that traverse photography, video, and film.

In the 1980s, she presented works using sequences, montage, and darkroom exposure and development processes in photography. Her work addresses the materiality of the photographic medium and the very process by which images are created. From 1991, she taught at the Braunschweig University of Art.

Her major works include "Pol," "Schneeball," "Montage," and "Seestücke."

Her major awards include the Krupp-Stipendium für zeitgenössische Fotografie, the 1st "Junge Europäische Fotografen" award (1985), residency grants at Barkenhoff Worpswede and Schloß Bleckede, a German Art Fund grant, and a Lower Saxony State Artist Scholarship.

Her major collections include Museum Folkwang, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Bibliothèque Nationale, Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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