Pathos as Distance [Hardcover]

Works from all series and phases of Andreas M?hes oeuvre are presented, including renowned series such as Obersalzberg (20102013) and A.M. (2013) as well as previously unpublished works. The photographs are accompanied by excerpts from the novel 1913  The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies.Andreas Muhe (b. 1979, Karl-Marx-Stadt) came to photography through an apprenticeship as a photo laboratory technician, after which he worked as an assistant to Ali Kepenek and Anatol Kotte. Muhe has worked as a freelance photographer and has published his portraits of actors, musicians, and artists in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. An early supporter is F.C. Gundlach, who describes his work as being of extraordinary consequence. Since 2010, Muhe has exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions at museums including the Kunsthalle Rostock, the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, the Benaki Museum in Athens, and the House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.Survey of the oeuvre of the German photographer, whose aesthetic perception is influenced by the world of theater, staging, and transformation First major survey of the oeuvre of the German photographer Coincides with exhibition at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Germany, May  August 2017The chalk cliffs on Rugen, the Zugspitze,Villa Hugel in Essen, the Lorelei on the Rhine, the massive head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz : selected locations of German culture and history, photographed looking out from the window of a limousine, in photographic vignettes that force the viewer to concentrate because they only offer a partial view. From a distance that seems cool and artificial, through the bulletproof glass, the photographer directs our gaze at parts of the landscape over the chancellors shoulder. We have seen the blazer, the haircut, and the jewelry a thousand times before. A. M.  Eine Deutschlandreise (A. M.  A Tour of Germany) is the title ols4