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Sites & Signs

Fotografien von Georg Aerni

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Sites & Signs is the first comprehensive monograph on the photographic work of Georg Aerni


Multilingual Edition (German, English)
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Title Details
Edited by Nadine Olonetzky
2011
Hardback
312 pages, 411 color and 211 b/w illustrations
23.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-320-6

Educated as an architect, the Swiss photographer Georg Aerni (*1959) naturally gravitated toward subjects of architecture, urban space, and the design of landscapes in his art. An extraordinary care and attention to craft is inherent in all of his body of work, which includes architectural photography taken in Paris, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and most recently Mumbai, as well as recent series in the Alps and various European zoos. With precision and subtle colorfulness, Aerni’s images allow the viewer to understand a city or landscape as a space of signs, which, although deserted, reveal a great deal about social conditions and our time. His photographs find those signs that characterize the mood of both urban structures and landscapes—a mood that is created by humans.

Sites & Signs is the first comprehensive monograph on Georg Aerni’s work. Included alongside the photos are essays by Stephan Berg, Moritz Küng, and Nadine Olonetzky that consider Aerni’s work in the context of contemporary photography, and on images of architecture and landscapes. Documenting one of the most interesting positions in contemporary Swiss artistic and architectural photography, Sites & Signs will provoke a captivating dialogue between photographers, urban planners, and architects.

 

Sites & Signs won a silver medal in the 2012 German Photo Book Award.

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“Zurich-based photographer Georg Aerni’s debut monograph subtly explores environmental transformations in areas both urban and rural, from a Hong Kong skyscraper to a Swiss golf course.” Surface

“Yet sometimes it does not matter to have more information than what can be seen on the photograph. This was my experience with the photographs in Georg Aerni’s Sites & Signs. I did not wonder what my eyes were showing me, I simply enjoyed the compositions, and the colours and felt fascinated what they did to me – I felt entranced, and I felt calm.” Hans Durrer, durrer-intercultural.blogspot.com

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