- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: Museum of Modern Art (November 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0870706829
- ISBN-13: 978-0870706820
- Product Dimensions: 32.8 x 25.2 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 939 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #717,862 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Great, informative book by a great artist., Mar 20 2006
By FMM Hendrickx - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Michael Wesely: Open Shutter (Hardcover)
This is an art book. The photographs in this book derive their meaning as much from the concept behind them as from their inherent beauty. The concept is clearly explained in the introduction and in an interview with the artist. Both these texts are indispensable if you want to enjoy Wesely's work to the fullest extent. Summarized, it comes down to the idea that Wesely leaves the shutter of his camera open for very long periods of time (months, or years even), thus recording processes rather than isolated events in one and the same photograph. This gives the photo's an eery, layered look. Things that did not move throughout the exposure period appear sharp and contrasty like one would expect, but things that appeared or disappeared in that same time are recorded more or less translucent, depending on the time they spent in front of the lens. Thus, one witnesses the growth of a building over time asif it were a motion picture, but instead of a sequence of images, this is a movie in one photograph.The photographs in the book focus on two projects, the Open Shutter project which Wesely did for the new Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Potsdamer Platz project, which he did in Berlin in the mid-1990s.
The reproductions of Wesely's art are all in all very good and my only minor problem with the book is that it does not go into the "how" of the art very deeply. For art lovers, this may not be important, but as a photographer, I would really like to know more about how it was done. If you ever get a chance to see his work in a gallery or a museum, go there!
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