SIGNED; Andre Gelpke - Fluchtgedanken (SECOND BOOK) - 1983

BRILLIANT SECOND BOOK by the well-known German photographer André Gelpke.

Bodly signed by the artist.
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André Gelpke was student of Otto Steinert and is one of most important German post-war photographers.

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André Gelpke (German, born 1947) studied photography with Otto Steinert at the Folkwang School in Essen between 1969 and 1974. Already in 1974, Gelpke was featured in an early solo exhibition at Galerie Lichtropfen in Aachen, later to become Galerie Kicken. In the year after obtaining his diploma, Gelpke co-founded the Visum photo agency. Next to Heinrich Riebesehl and Michael Schmidt, Gelpke can be considered one of the pioneers of art photography in West-Germany at the time. Gelpke’s photographs have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at large museums, such as the Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, among others. Between 1990 and 2012 he was professor for photography at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts). He continues to live and work in Zurich.

Mahnert-Lueg. 1983. First edition, first printing.

Softcover with jacket (as issued; there was never a hardcover edition published). 242 x 280 mm. 88 pages with photos in black and white. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket in general lightly, partly stronger yellowed (like always, seems to be a general material problem). Very light bump at the top right corner of the front cover and of the pages (marginal, not dramatic). Overall fine condition.

Important and very beautiful German photobook of the 80ties by André Gelpke - signed by the artist.

André Gelpke is beside Bernd (Bernhard) und Hilla Becher ("Anonyme Skulpturen"), Michael Schmidt ("Waffenruhe"), Otto Steinert ("Subjektive Fotografie"), Heinrich Riebesehl ("Agrarlandschaften"), Wilhelm
Schürmann ("Fotografien"), Andreas Gursky ("Montparnasse"), Thomas Struth ("Museum Photographs") und Axel Hütte ("London") one of the best and most important german post-war photographers.