Erwin Olaf - Own - Works 1984-2012 - 2012

Erwin Olaf - Own - Works 1984-2012 - 2012 - 33x29cm - Lido - 348pp.

Erwin Olaf: Own: Works 1984-2012 Javier Panera; Natacha Wolinski
Erwin Olaf, who combines photojournalism with highly stylized studio photography, broke through on the international art scene in 1988 when his series Chessmen won the first prize in the Young European Photographer competition. This prize was followed in the same year by an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany. Early on Olaf dedicated himself to sensitive issues such as class, race, gender and religious belief. His noir-ish style, infused with the America of the 1950s, was embraced by the advertising world, leading to global campaigns for Diesel Jeans and Heineken (with which he won the highly coveted Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions Festival for Advertising). Beyond his commercial work, Olaf undermines the ideal of domestic happiness in recent series such as Rain (2004), Hope (2005), Grief (2007) and Fall (2008), while Dusk (2009) and Dawn (2010) demonstrate how culture can lead to oppression. A similar detachment occurs in the Hotel series (2010), in which he explores a range of melancholic emotions in poorly lit, beautifully furnished hotel rooms from the fifties. In addition to new and unpublished work, this book, now in its second edition, offers an overview of all the personal (non-commercial) work Olaf has produced over the past 25 years.

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