German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of photography. Initially he took up photography to record his ephemeral paper constructions, but in 1993 he turned the tables by making constructions in order to photograph them. Demand begins by translating a preexisting image, usually culled from the media, into a life-size model he makes out of colored paper and cardboard. He recreates a room, a parking lot, a staircase, a landscape--then he photographs the model and destroys it. Demand's photographs ...
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German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of photography. Initially he took up photography to record his ephemeral paper constructions, but in 1993 he turned the tables by making constructions in order to photograph them. Demand begins by translating a preexisting image, usually culled from the media, into a life-size model he makes out of colored paper and cardboard. He recreates a room, a parking lot, a staircase, a landscape--then he photographs the model and destroys it. Demand's photographs appear at once compellingly real and strangely artificial. Since their subjects--handcrafted facsimiles of both architectural spaces and natural environments--are themselves built in the image of other images, the photographs are three times removed from the scenes they seek to depict. Combining craftsmanship and conceptualism in equal parts, Demand pushes the medium of photography toward uncharted frontiers. Given the cinematic quality of many of his photographs, it is not surprising that he has set some of them in motion, producing five 35 mm films. This comprehensive publication presents all of Demand's major works from 1993 to the present. It includes previously unpublished archival documentation, and offers compelling insight into his working process and the stories behind his pictures.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2005. 144 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of photography. Initially he took up photography to record his ephemeral paper constructions, but in 1993 he turned the tables by making constructions in order to photograph them. Demand begins by translating a preexisting image, usually culled from the media, into a life-size model he makes out of colored paper and cardboard. He recreates a room, a parking lot, a staircase, a landscape--then he photographs the model and destroys it. Demand's photographs appear at once compellingly real and strangely artificial. Since their subjects--handcrafted facsimiles of both architectural spaces and natural environments--are themselves built in the image of other images, the photographs are three times removed from the scenes they seek to depict. Combining craftsmanship and conceptualism in equal parts, Demand pushes the medium of photography toward uncharted frontiers. Given the cinematic quality of many of his photographs, it is not surprising that he has set some of them in motion, producing five 35 mm films. This comprehensive publication presents all of Demand's major works from 1993 to the present. It includes previously unpublished archival documentation, and offers compelling insight into his working process and the stories behind his pictures. E-088; 13.1 X 10.1 X 0.9 inches; 144 pages.
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New. SPECIAL ORDER (delivery in 2-3 weeks): PRICING & AVAILABILITY SUBJECT TO CHANGE. SHIPPING NOTE: due to size, weight and special packing requirements, additional shipping fees apply (calculated at checkout). A framed original, pigment print, "Detail XII, 2012, " signed, numbered and dated in black marker on recto by Demand. Framed by the gallery. Printed on on Canson Baryta Photographique Paper (paper size 61 x 51 cm; image size 52.7 x 47.0 cm; frame size 61.9 x 51.9 x 2.5 cm). This work is from a numbered edition of 36 (this being #27/36) issued on the occasion of the major retrospective exhibition "Thomas Demand" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, 2012. Mounted to aluminum and framed in a custom-made acrylic enclosure made according to the specifications of the artist. [Auction Reference: Phillips de Pury & Company, "Saturday @ Phillips" (Sale Number NY000208, October 25, 2008): Price realized for Lot 50. $5000 (including buyer's premium).]. New (the print and frame are flawless). Thomas Demand is one of the most important and relevant contemporary artists working today. Demand's starting point is usually an image culled from the mass media, off the Internet, or a low-resolution image discovered in a newspaper or other source during his research. Oftentimes, the picture has become iconic or representative in some way of an important historical, political or cultural event. He then painstakingly creates by hand, over the course of weeks or even months, a full-size (1: 1) sculptural model from colored paper and cardboard. The paper model, in which he deliberately excludes certain specific details, and emphasizes various elements and graphic forms important to the original source image, is then photographed by Demand. This photograph is the final work of art and the paper-model is then destroyed and recycled ("Grotte / Grotto, 2006" is the only existing original paper sculpture). Demand's large-scale photographs deal with our relationship to media in general, and photography in particular. The confluence of memory, individual interpretations and readings, collective meanings associated with significant events, are all examined. His process--from source material and research, to the meticulous sculptural interpretation, to the final photographic work--adds to his multi-layered examination of visual representation, as well as the problematic "indexical" nature of photography. If one strips away specificity, if the details that allow us to "read" a photograph are reduced to generic bits of unremarkable paper, is the result a denial of what photography intends? If the photograph exists to let us know who we are in space, allows us to decode the details, the light, the "specifics, " then Demand turns our perceptions into chaos. In his work, Demand uses sites of historical significance--visual sites--and recreates them in painstaking full-size scale models using cardboard and paper. The authenticity of the historical event is suggested, through titles, yet the images are stark and lifeless as enormous vacuums of energy and perception. They are intentionally blank and soul-less, so as to capture the inadequacy of photography's ability to really "capture" historical events. Based on a model of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Demand's still life photograph belies the tragic failure and panicked efforts to avert disaster at the plant after the 2011 Japan tsunami. Signed by Author.