Research Catalog

Title

Fernweh / Teju Cole.

Author

Cole, Teju

Publication

• [London] : MACK, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

The picturesque vistas and apparent stability of Switzerland have made it an elusive subject for contemporary photography. Over a five-year period (2014-2019), Cole found a distinctly new way to look at a country that has been the quintessence of tourist experience for almost two centuries. Fernweh muses on the German word for a longing to be elsewhere. Cole's meditative and scrupulously composed work, made with colour film, is evocative of the hidden history of the Alpine nation as well as of its highly curated terrain. Returning to Switzerland year after year, Cole shares the patience and mild palette of luminaries of contemporary European photography - but the constructivist tension in these images is all his own. With photographs shot in every corner of the country - from Vaud to Graubünden to Lugano - Fernweh creates a vision of Switzerland that, though largely devoid of human presence, is rich in human traces; none more so than Cole's own distinct way of seeing.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Photographs.
• Teju Cole : Fernweh

Subjects

• Pictorial works
• Cole, Teju
• Switzerland > Pictorial works
• Photography, Artistic > 21st century

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• Chiefly illustrated.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781912339549
• 1912339544

LCCN

2019467698

OCLC

• on1125993664
• SCSB-9718235

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library