Christian Vogt
it was always there, it's just grown stronger

Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he continues to question the relationship between visible reality and its photographic reproduction, between image and text, between seeing and knowing. Using a pinhole camera and modern technology without the intervention of digital manipulation, he deals with the “necessary nonsense,” with unifying opposites, with actual and supposed paradoxes, defining some things through exploration and allowing others to remain undefined.

Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he continues to question the relationship between visible reality and its photographic reproduction, between image and text, between seeing and knowing. Using a pinhole camera and modern technology without the intervention of digital manipulation, he deals with the “necessary nonsense,” with unifying opposites, with actual and supposed paradoxes, defining some things through exploration and allowing others to remain undefined.

Author(s): Christian Vogt

Design: Christian Vogt with Lars Müller and Martina Mullis

24 x 16,5, 9 ½ x 6 ½ in

144 pages, 128 illustrations

hardback

2014, 978-3-03778-455-6, English
CHF 30.00

Christian Vogt

Christian Vogt was born in Basel in 1946. His work is shown in renowned museums, galleries, and institutions around the world and part of private and public collections. Vogt is author or co-author of numerous books and catalogues, and the subject of many others worldwide.