SUPER SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this HIGHLY UNDERRATED German photobook - by Gosbert Adler. EXTREM SCARCE. HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE - strongly limited to 600 copies only. Signed by the artist. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. "With the work we present at the gallery Berlin-based Gosbert Adler (b. 1956 in Essen) is among that group of photographers which conceptualized in the 1980ies a completely different German photography than the one, which the Dusseldorf School of distance and objectified gaze developed. Rather, in this group of photographers around Michael Schmidt it is about combining the subjective of human perception and the apparatus of photographic vision. In addition to Gosbert Adler and Michael Schmidt Joachim Brohm, Volker Heinze and Paul Grahamalsohave to be mentioned. The significance of this particular photography was rediscovered in 2016 in three exhibitions “Workshop for Photography” at C/O Berlin, at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover and at "Museum Folkwang Essen", including Gosbert Adler as one of the protagonist. The work complex "Sog" from 1990, which in total comprises 21 motives, was exhibited in the same year at the “Photographic Cabinet” of the Museum Folkwang Essen in a solo show. During the time when almost all photographersworked with color, Adler returned to his experimental practice of black-and-white photography but still retaining aspects of his “anti-skill photography” which he had created with his award-winning series “Brot” (Krupp scholarship) and which he had developed during the 1980s in color and withinstamatic cameras. The photographs show fragmentary details of construction sites. The subject is focused very close up so that the objects lose the connection to the environment. Due to the photographic and motivic blurring, a quick recognition is not possible. The excerpt from the urban space is decidedly to be seen as an image that brings concrete reality and abstract form together. Ute Eskildsen described the series in 1990 as follows: “The subject of the new black and white work is the street, the urban ground, the earthworks. The photographer’s gaze is directed downwards – it doesn’t lead us along the clean asphalt, but aims for cracks, incisions, provisional constellations. Undefinable layers sink into black gaps, depressions and holes. The object disappears in the picture. Adler’s pictures show the penetration of the surface as a permanent effort but also a constant failure.” Especially today, in the age of digitally calculated images, the rediscovery of Gosbert Adler’s experimental and provocative practice seems particularly rewarding." (Gallery Jack Strenz) Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Folkwang Museum, Essen. Gosbert Adler. 1990. First edition, first printing. Hardcover (as issued). 225 x 325 mm. 52 pages. Photos: Gosbert Adler. Layout: Gosbert Adler, Herlof Schürmann. Printing: Druckmeister, Essen. Text in German. Condition: Inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside the extremely sensitive covers a bit used and a bit rubbed at the edges (what is often the case). EXTREM SCARCE and DEEPLY IMPRESSIVE German photobook - signed by the artist. "Gosbert Adler, born 1956 in Essen, is a German photographer and professor at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. Adler belongs to a generation of German photographers who, since the end of the 1970s, have discovered the medium of photography beyond its functional tasks as an “artistically reflective instrument” for dealing with reality from a critical position towards the usual exploitation practices. In the field of tension between an emancipating artistic photography, which is characterized by the terms of the “documentary style” (Walker Evans) and “author photography” (Klaus Honnef), Adler finds suggestions for one in the discussion with Michael Schmidt self-determined work. The reception of contemporary American photography in a new documentary tradition such as the New Topographics movement also provides important impulses. Adler's early works are autobiographical. The first series such as the untitled diploma thesis (1982) - reinterpreted in 2011 under the title “Bread” -, “Nadja” (1986) and the work “The Word Becomes Flesh and Eats,” which was awarded the First German Photo Prize me” (1988–89) show subjective everyday observations as deliberately artless, fragmentary and hermetic color images that undermine photographic rules, often combined with text. In the 1990s, Adler dealt with the change in urban space: stages of construction and deconstruction (“Sog”, 1990) and the juxtaposition of public outdoor space and private interior space (“Die Zelle,” 1994) are presented in the mode of “questioning observation “ visualized. Images of humanity gain in importance with the series “Return to reason” (2018). Here Gosbert Adler explores the diversity of human relationships in the image of their different actions and attitudes as contemporary pathos formulas. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Gosbert Adler studied from 1976 at Faculty 4 (Design) at the Essen Comprehensive University, initially industrial design, and from 1977 to 1984 photo design with Otto Steinert and Angela Neuke-Widmann. From 1982 to 1986, through the intervention of Michael Schmidt, Adler was a lecturer in photography at the 'Workshop for Photography' at the Berlin-Kreuzberg Adult Education Center and from 1984 to 1986 he also managed the workshop's gallery. In this context, in addition to numerous monographic exhibitions, he developed the exhibition “DDR FOTO” (together with Wilmar Koenig). Since 1988, Adler has held teaching positions in photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, the Zurich University of Design and Art, the Berlin University of the Arts, the Merz Academy Stuttgart and the Wismar University. From 2002 to 2007 he was professor of photography in the fine arts department at Hanover University of Applied Sciences. Adler has been teaching as a professor of photography at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts since 2007. Gosbert Adler lives in Berlin." (Wikipedia)