{"product_id":"balthasar-burkhard","title":"Balthasar Burkhard","description":"This book presents the many facets of photographer Balthasar  Burkhard (1944-2010), showing his self-invention as an artist and  tracing the trajectory of the medium of photography in the later  half of the twentieth century. Burkhard's work combines a sensitive  understanding of the body as sculpture and the photographic image as  a canvas, making him one of the pioneers in translating photography  as a monumental \"tableau\" into contemporary art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive book coalesces Burkhard's early role as a  chronicler of the contemporary art of his time, especially as the main  photographer for Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, his conceptual  redefinition of photography together with other artists, and finally his  emancipation as a photo artist. It accompanies a major retrospective  organized by Museum Folkwang in Essen, Fotomuseum Winterthur  and Fotostiftung Schweiz, the Museo d'arte della Svizzerra italiana in  Lugano and the Balthasar Burkhard Estate in Bern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nude photos. I never succeeded with nude photos. I have discarded  the experiments. But the discarded photos are as important as the  successful ones. I have discarded them because the absence of the  other was not clear enough.' -Balthasar Burkhard","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664315027492,"sku":"9783958293427","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958293427.jpg?v=1777355734","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/balthasar-burkhard","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}