Thomas Wrede Sceneries
by Thomas Wrede
The publication Sceneries provides comprehensive insight into the diverse and multilayered work of the German photographer Thomas Wrede (b. 1963). It brings together for the first time works from the last 25 years, including well-known series such as Domestic Landscapes, which present complex »picture-in-picture« situations in photo wallpapers, and Die Vögel stehen in der Luft und schreien (The Birds Hang in the Air and Scream), black-and-white photographs of largely fatal collisions of birds with glass windows.
The starting point of Wrede’s photographic oeuvre is always the yearning for nature and the question as to how this can be medially transmitted. With his new works from the series Real Sceneries, he explores the boundaries between real and surreal worlds and presents us with an exciting interplay of truth and fiction. In doing so, he consciously shifts these boundaries and questions photography’s fidelity to reality.
Publisher's Description
Over the past six years, German
photographer ThomasWrede (born
1963) has made the billboards of
Manhattan a photographic motif
or stage, in order to play them off
against the realism of the street
life around them, and to make
explicit the chasm between the
“ideal life” sold us by advertising
and the real life that falls so short
of it. In working this interplay,
Wrede produces images that at
once baffle the eye and bind it into
a single tight glyph of layers—layers
that we, as urban pedestrians,
usually experience as a multiplelevel
bombardment rather than as
the unified coherenceWrede fashions.
What Manhattan Picture
Worlds finally reveals is the deeply
semiotic nature of urban experience,
in the number of brands
competing for our attention along
any given city block.Wrede’s photographs
do not overtly critique
this fact, but simply make it comprehensible
to our eyes and minds.
Book Information
ISBN:
978-86828-868
Publisher:
Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin
Format:
Hardcover, 120 pages
Language:
German
Dimensions:
10,6 x
12,1 x
0,7 inches