Jules Spinatsch: Temporary Discomfort
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35,00€
About
Published in 2005, this book won the book Award at the 2005 annual photo Festival « Rencontres d’arles", and was picked by Martin Parr to bepart of his own selection of the best books of the last decade. According to the later, Temporary Discomfort is one of the most coherent and challenging books of the past decade, »
Jules Spinatsch was at the World Economic and also attended the G8 summits at Davos and Evian. During these global summits, Jules Spinatsch took his camera and started to document the cities' security organisation around the events. Showing alternatively winter nights in Davos, floodlighted barbed wire, containers being used as barricades in Genoa, lonely TV reporters outside broadcast vehicles and sleepy guards in New York. Temporary Discomfort shows people waiting for the big event, which is revealed as meticulously planned down to the last detail.
One of the best photobooks of the last decade: selection of Martin Parr 2006 + 2011
About the artist
Jules Spinatsch (born 1964 in Davos) studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and worked as a freelance photographer and photojournalist from 1995 on. Since 2000, he has been predominantly active as an artist with exhibitions at the MoMA, New York, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Tate Modern, London, Centre de la Photographie CPG, Geneva, Kunsthaus Zurich and the Kunstmuseum Chur, among others. In 2003, he started the Surveillance Panorama Projects, in which computer-controlled cameras generate new types of panoramic images from thousands of individual images. So far, numerous publications have appeared on his work. Temporary Discomfort (Lars Müller Publishers, 2005) won the award for best photography book in Arles in 2005. Spinatsch received the Swiss Art Award in 2004 and 2014.
Texts : Martin Jäggi, Jamie Patrick Shea
Design: W. Heininger
Product details
24 x 30 cm
