Balthasar Burkhard

Balthasar Burkhard: Scent Of Desire
Publisher's Description
Swiss photographer Balthasar
Burkhard (born 1944) makes largeformat
pictures that bring out the
general contours of a repertoire of
subjects—primarily bodies and
landscapes (both urban and
rural)—which are presented in
dramatically stark black-and-white
contrast to create an effect of
extreme formal reduction and
breathtaking scale. In his wellknown
portraits of the Alps, for
example, he elicits both delicate
detail and epic monumentality
from the mountainscape, projecting
an atmosphere of forceful
silence and enlarging the drama
with painterly effects. For the
viewer, Burkhard’s images provoke
a thrilling vertigo, as the eye
roams to locate an anchor amid
such vast scale. This beautiful
two-volume set premiers
Burkhard’s new full-color work
alongside the older black-andwhite
portrait and landscape
photographs for which the artist
is so well known. These recent
color pictures of blossoms and
plants convey an impressive
sensual intensity, so palpable we
can almost smell their scents.
ISBN: 3907474686
Publisher: Edizioni Periferia
Paperback : 144 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches
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Publisher: Edizioni Periferia
Paperback : 144 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 inches