VERY SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this GREAT, SOLD-OUT BOOK by German photographer Joachim Brohm ("Kray", "Ruhr", "Ohio") - in BRANDNEW CONDITION + SIGNED. "Joachim Brohm rose to prominence in the early 1980s, one of the first photographers in Europe to take pictures exclusively in colour, connecting the everyday cultural landscape with the new possibilities of colour photography. This collection titled Typology 1979 is one of his very earliest series, depicting 35 allotment sheds from the Ruhr valley region of Germany, painterly images that are an everyday inventory - of garden structures, of human activity. Influenced by the great American photographers such as William Eggleston and Robert Adams, he also looked to his German contemporaries, Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose "typologies" are heralded in the collection's title." Signed by the artist. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. COLLECTOR'S COPY. 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. "No two of the little houses are the same? carefully proportioned furnishings here are wildly contradicted with slapdash decorations over there. Everyone has thought about their buildings, brought materials, laid walls, used power drills, insulated, glued things, extended the previous tenant`s shed, retro-fitted a bigger window, added a television antenna. They are strange hybrid buildings,between tool sheds and dachas, gingerbread houses and orangeries." - Ulf Erdmann Ziegler (from inside the book) - Mack Books, London. 2014. First edition, first printing. Hardcover (as issued). 240 x 260 mm. 104 pages. 35 colour plates. Photos: Joachim Brohm. Text by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. Text in English and German. Great photobook - in perfect condition. Joachim Brohm was born 1955 in Dülken, Germany. He lives and works in Leipzig and since 1993 he has been Professor of Photography at Leipzig Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst/Academy of Visual Arts. "Joachim Brohm is the German pioneer of color photography capturing everyday scenarios in both rural and urban landscapes. Similar to Lewis Baltz (his American influence), Joachim Brohm photographs the German and American territories that have experienced a period of industrial decline, therefore heightening the feeling of sterility and irrelevance over time." (Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, Santa Monica) "Joachim Brohm, born in 1955, created the right photographic images at the right time - images that would prove to be a pioneering achievement in the context of a fierce debate over the status of photography in art. His work became a vehicle for an understanding of art since the 1970s that made a young generation of artists connect the visual possibilities of color photography with a newly defined 'everyday cultural landscape.' At the same time, Brohm s constantly elaborated sequences of photographs also show how important the medium and the artist s archive have become as reflectors of day-to-day existence, challenging him to keep developing and reviewing them in the light of changes in the reality of our lives." (Schirmer and Mosel, publisher, Germany)