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When I began writing Modernist Cuisine, I had several goals in mind: to explore the scientific principles behind cooking, to explain the latest Modernist techniques from the top restaurants around the world, and to punctuate the collection with stunning visuals. Nearly every review that came in cited our photography; even commenters who took issue with […]
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EHRHARDT, Alfred. Das Watt [Mudflats]. Hamburg: Heinrich Ellermann, 1937. Quarto, original beige cloth.. First edition of this abstract modernist treatment of mudflats created by the receding tide, with 96 finely-screened duotones. “The modernist New Vision style was characterized by a tendency to find subjects both in the city and in nature that made good abstract or semi-abstract photographs… The best of this genre is arguably Alfred Ehrhardt’s Das Watt… His photographs of a commonplace subject—mudflats after the tide has receded—are simple, striking and carefully crafted… He chooses the low sun of morning or evening, shooting either directly into the light or with strong sidelighting to make the most of the ripple effects left by the departing tide” (Parr & Badger, 112) Alfred Ehrhardt: Das Watt January 18 - April 27, 2014 Opening: Friday, January 17, 2014, 7 pm Opening Remarks: Dr. Christiane Stahl, director Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Preparations for this exhibition have been underway since the establishment of the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in the year 2002, and this presentation has finally be made possible by a purchase as well as a donation. Compiled exclusively from the foundation’s own collection, the show includes 70 vintage prints from the series Das Watt (The Tidelands) (1933–1936) and concentrates on Ehrhardt’s first major photographic work, which is among the most outstanding visual achievements of the avant-garde photography of the 1930s. It is the starting point for all of the prize-winning photographic and film work of this multi-faceted, Bauhaus-trained artist and represents the crème de la crème of his photographic oeuvre. The artistic quality of this series remains unequalled, even among the masters of the photography of the New Objectivity. The reprint of the book Das Watt (The Tidelands) from 1937, as an exclusive facsimile edition by Éditions Xavier Barral, provides the perfect occasion for this exhibition. The publication is an ode to nature and a masterpiece of book art. It is not by chance that in 2004 it received international recognition in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s extensively illustrated volume The Photobook. A History: »This is both an attractively designed and finely printed book—an island of tranquil beauty in a cultural sea that was becoming increasingly barbaric.« The work of Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984) spanned a range of media. He was church organist and choir director, composer, painter, and art teacher before he became photographer. After studying at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1928/29, where he was a member of the class of Josef Albers and an assistant of Vassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer, he established the first so called »Vorkurs« for material studies outside the Bauhaus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. After being dismissed from his teaching position in 1933, he turned to photography and film. In Cuxhaven, where he took a job in his original profession as a church musician, he discovered the unique qualities of the ever-changing sea landscape of the tidelands before the islands of Scharhörn and Neuwerk. He was fascinated by the structures in the sand that emerged every day anew, formed by wind and water. These reminded him of his teachings on the nature of materials, in which his students were required to learn to discern the »structure, texture, and consistency« of materials. He soon realized that the camera was capable of innocuously producing images that were forbidden in paint. Instead of taking up the pencil or paintbrush, he now »rendered« the abstract forms of nature with the camera. Through the selection of his motifs, the choice of perspective, and a choreography of light, he elevated the treasures of »artist nature« to a human art form, which was on par with nature without being a mere replica. Spreading out Alfred Ehrhardt’s photographs of abstract sand forms in the tidelands, one gains the impression of »chaos and structure.« The artist’s cropping of the images reveals the inherent beauty of the so many diverse forms that demonstrate the force of nature. However, when viewed as a whole, this variation of forms establishes a link between the micro- and macrocosm; it lends a system to the structures of nature and order to its chaos, as if the artist wished to make the world comprehensible through his chosen medium. Alfred Ehrhardt was a neo-romantic influenced by the New Objectivity, a »natural philosopher with a camera,« as he was described at the time. His series Das Watt brings together the structural experiments of New Vision, the typological approach of the New Objectivity’s indebtedness to natural philosophy, his sense of composition, materials, and abstraction as well as a worldview influenced by Kandinsky, Schlemmer, and Klee that aimed to transcend the material through an expression of the cosmic and the spiritual. In setting aside the chaos of an industrialized world, in the contemplative concentration on empty landscapes defined only by the sky and the horizon, and in focusing on the hidden loveliness and symmetric beauty of the natural microcosm, Ehrhardt achieved with this series a work of utmost formal consequence and stirring simple beauty. Additional venues: Alfred Ehrhardt. 'Das Neue Sehen': Nature and Abstraction Museum Kunst der Westküste, Hauptstraße 7, D-25938 Alkersum / Föhr June 15, 2014 – January 11, 2015 Publications: Alfred Ehrhardt, Das Watt (The Watt), a facsimile edition of the original book published in 1937 by the Heinrich Ellermann Verlag, Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris 2014, 22.5 x 29 cm, 96 b/w ills., 112 pp., texts by Kurt Dingelstedt, Alfred Ehrhardt, 16 pp. translation English / French Alfred Ehrhardt Eine geriffelte Fläche wird allmählich von einer feinbreiigen Sandschicht überzogen Alfred Ehrhardt Flut im Watt Alfred Ehrhardt Fließender Sand Alfred Ehrhardt Formearbeit des Windes und der rechtwinkelig dazu stehenden Strömung Alfred Ehrhardt Tierähnliche Gebilde (Larven)
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When I began writing Modernist Cuisine, I had several goals in mind: to explore the scientific principles behind cooking, to explain the latest Modernist techniques from the top restaurants around the world, and to punctuate the collection with stunning visuals. Nearly every review that came in cited our photography; even commenters who took issue with […]
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We had the chance to shoot the Cartier Boutique and visual merchandising on New Bond street in London. Our team captured the amazing Christmas windows created by the Visual Merchandising team of the luxury jewellery & watch brand with a focus on the giant bow wrapped around the building. We shot the project both at night and during the day time.
