A Photobook Library

Sigmar Polke: Photoworks : When Pictures Vanish

This catalog accompanies the first museum retrospective of the photography of influential German multimedia artist Polke.

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His constant manipulation of negatives, paper, and print and use of double exposures and overprinting can be seen as direct influences from other media.

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This book is a gorgeously reproduced volume of his work, accompanied by scholarly texts by Maria Morris Hambourg, curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and by Paul Schimmel, MOCA’s chief curator and organizer of this exhibition.
Specifics: Sigmar Polke: Photoworks : When Pictures Vanish (Scalo Publishers, 1996). Hardcover: 256 pages.
Language: English.