Fotografie 1957-1977 by Floris Neusüss

Neusüss, who died last year, was a German photographer known primarily for his photograms - photographic images made without the use of a camera (this is both experimental and true to the earliest photographic methods).

The Greek ‘photogram’ literally translates as ‘line of light’, as opposed to ‘the writing of light’ given by ‘photograph’. This is suggestive of a photogram’s relative lack of mediation: removing the distance and manipulations afforded by a camera the illusion of difference between form and content is dissolved, the expression interpenetrating that which it expresses - the images produced as a result of paper, chemicals, light, and other objects (bodies, plants, rain, sunlight) touching.

This book is separated into four sections: the first recording Neusüss’s fantastical superimpositions, the second his ‘Korperschatten’ or body shadows, the third his playings with scale and object, and the fourth: Flugtraum und Körperauflösungen (flight dream and body resolution/dissolution [the plural noun ‘auflösungen’ giving both potential meanings])

Large format black and white images, soft cover, first edition. Good condition - some minor wear.