Fantastic photobook by Elger Esser, pupil of Bernd Becher at the "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf" (Becher-class), the school of: Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Axel Hütte, Candida Höfer and others. Very fresh condition. 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. Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 208. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. 328 x 293 mm. 96 pages. 37 color plates. Pictures from the archive. Photos: Elger Esser. Concept and design: Monika Warmuth, Düsseldorf. Printing and binding: EBS, Verona. Text: Alexander Pühringer. Text in English and in German. Condition: Book inside new, mint, unread. Book outside with little bump at the top left corner of the rear side (with no consequence for inside). Dustjacket super fresh and complete with no missing parts; little bump at the top left corner of the rear side, neat tear and crease at the bottom of the front flap, no other flaws or defects. Overall fine condition. Great photobook. Born in 1967, Elger Esser is one of the youngest members of the Becher's master class at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. He works in color with a large-format camera, though in technique he stands apart by underexposing his prints, producing delicate and washed out hues, rich in their subtlety. Elger Esser's work is rooted in place, which is to say that his photographs are about the here-and-now; the details in the photographs stand solely for these particulars and no others. The place, then, of these images is a strip of coastline in France, from Cap d'Antifer to Etretat, made famous at the turn of the century by the writer Gustave Flaubert; the young Guy de Maupassant sketched the region for Flaubert, and it is from these sketches that Esser has worked. As important to this book as the photographs are, however, is the wide-ranging essay on 20th century art-making penned by Peter Foos. He draws into his dialogue Duchamp, Walter Benjamin, Hubertus von Amelunxen, and Courbet in a thoroughly engaging manner.