In the course of the past six years, Swiss photo artist Guido Baselgia has realised an extraordinary project. In Ecuador, Norway, Tierra del Fuego and the Swiss Alps, his large-format camera captured the sky and landscapes in the changing light of the stars. The result is a series of outstanding black-and-white photographs, whose subject matter occasionally dissolves into the non-representational. They reveal the trajectories of the sun and stars, and display mountains, plains and oceans in the … more

Jessica Craig-Martin Standard Excess Vernissage Donnerstag 22. März 2012, 18-20 Uhr Ausstellung 23. März - 5. Mai 2012„One is never so naked as when dressed for a party“, sagt die Fotokünstlerin Jessica Craig-Martin in einem Interview. Ihr Ausspruch widerspiegelt sich unmittelbar in ihren Sujets. Craig-Martins Arbeiten zeigen verschiedene festliche Anlässe, seien es Cocktail-Parties, Charity-Events oder glamouröse Galas am Filmfestspiel in Cannes oder an der … more

Guido Baselgia AlpenFalten Guido Baselgia is a photographer. But what pulls him is not the naturalistic reproduction of a landscape. Shouldering his large-format camera, he invests heavily in his works, the result of lonely marches across empty landscapes. In all weather, in complete silence and isolation he communes with what he sees, tenaciously struggling to achieve his vision. The Swiss Engadine and the Bolivian Altiplano, Chile’s Atacama desert, the Far North with its fjords and polar… more

Ralf Peters Photography 1998 – 2010Ralf Peters does not consider himself as a card-holding photographer but emphatically claims to use his photographs as mere material: photography is the medium whereby he hopes to make meaningful statements on reality and its medial presentation. To achieve this challenges the viewer to be his partner – as an inquisitive and critically perceptive observer. It is only because the strange beauty and sometimes disturbing impenetrability of Peters'… more

Erwin Blumenfeld – Vintage

The Andres Thalmann Gallery is delighted to present Blumenfeld‘s Vintage Prints from 1937 – 1958 in close cooperation with the Erwin Blumenfeld Estate. In the 1940s and 50s Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was among New York‘s most highly regarded fashion and advertising photographers. The Kunsthaus Zürich celebrated his 100th birthday in a 1997 retrospective that covered Blumenfeld‘s artistic oeuvre in great detail.

Blum… more