Wolfgang Bartels
The World of Johann Sebastian Bach
Through the Eye of the Camera
This photographic work on the world of Johann Sebastian Bach comprises his places of activity (churches, princely and royal courts), anecdotes, metaphors which reflect the spirit of his unmatched compositions and even a descendant of one direct family line. To avoid usual postcard views, abstraction and the reproduction in reducing black and white often helped.
14 years of photographic work which required a great deal of empathy, resulted in a kind of essay that combines different perspectives – one could almost say, as in a Bach fugue, in which several voices merge into a new harmony. For the author Bach is the most important musician of all time. He burns for Bach, his music often makes him euphoric. Wolfgang Bartels would be delighted if he could have approached with photographic means.
High quality Offset-Duplex print, printing varnish partial on the photo, circa 30 x 30 cm, circa 170 g/qm paper, hardcover without book jacket, thread stitching, circa 380 pages, circa 170 photo plates thereof, German/English
ISBN-10: 3000805915
ISBN-13: 978-3000805912[B1]
Foreword:
Prof. Claude W. Sui, former curator and director photography at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim
Afterword:
Prof. Christoph Wolff, Professor Emeritus of musicology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bach researcher
Catalogue includes comments on J. S. Bach
Price:
98,00 € plus postage and packing
Orders please send to:
Wolfgang Bartels Photographie
Kirchröder Str. 7, 30625 Hannover, Germany
info@wolfgang-bartels-photo.de
www.wolfgang-bartels-photo.de