Benjamin Katz, photographer and artist, provides unusual insights into Richters's working method and intellectual world
Rare, unpublished photographs of Gerhard Richter
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Benjamin Katz: Gerhard Richter at work
Gerhard Richter is among the most prominent painters of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a career spanning almost 60 years. Beyond his monumental abstract and photo-realistic works, his working method, artistic processes and philosophy are less well known. The Belgian photographer Benjamin Katz captures the notoriously camera-shy artist at work.
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Using a pair of compact Leicas, Katz produced and hand-developed eighty black and white portraits of Richter painting, sketching and mentally processing his work. These candid photographs reflect genuine moments in the life of his subject, encompassing humour, melancholy and love. Katz, a veteran of the art world himself, has captured many other legendary figures in his work, and has exhibited in some of the world’s most important galleries. Among his subjects are Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Rosemarie Trockel, Martin Kippenberger and Georg Baselitz. Katz’s striking photographs offer new insights into the celebrated career of Gerhard Richter.
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Katz ist ein so aufmerksamer Beobachter und obendrein Freund, dass die komplexe Welt des scheuen Richter wohl noch nie so einfühlsam dargestellt wurde.
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Essays by Wilfried Wiegand, Stephan von Wiese, Paul Moorhouse, introduction by Dietmar Elger
Text: German / English / French
144 pages, 94 black and white plates
24 x 28 cm, hardcover
Text: German / English / French
144 pages, 94 black and white plates
24 x 28 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-5311-8
Collector's edition
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