“Chemical Alterations 2012 - 2022”
Kerber Verlag, 2023, Hardcover, 53 color images, Q & A with Jon Feinstein, Essay by Eiren Caffall.
Designed by Ryan Edmund Thiel.
Chemical Alterations 2012–2022 presents a photographic series by Doug Fogelson (b. 1970) that reflects the range of impacts caused by climate change around the planet. Using a process that combines traditional landscape photography with a chemical bath of toxic cleaning products to alter the original analogue film, Fogelson illustrates what are often invisible changes to the environment. Such changes culminate as disastrous events like fire, flood, drought, increasingly powerful storms, and overall global warming. Images of natural spaces that include mountains, deserts, volcanoes, jungles, oceans, rivers, and forests become represented in a state of flux. Through the processing of the film, traces such as bubbles, crystals, fingerprints, and dust are integrated into the images, probing the borderline of abstraction.
https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/2073/doug-fogelson
“The Time After”
Front Forty Press, 2009. Hardcover. Cloth boards with stamped lettering and light blue paper label. 215 pp. Color photographs by Doug Fogelson. Essays by Derrick Jensen, Eiren Caffall, and Bridgette R. McCullough.
Designed by Tim Hartford.
“Doug Fogelson’s The Time After may seem self-contradictory. It is a beautiful book that stares into the bleakest dark hole imaginable to humans: the destruction of our earth. It does so through a combination of Fogelson’s own photography—vivid, multilayered and prismatic panoramas exploring cycles of life in the worlds around us—and texts by three gifted writers—frightening, enlightening, and mournful, but never maudlin. As Eiren Caffall puts it in her eulogy to the planet, “We have done things to this place we love that we can never make right. We are losing what we knew, and the end, as it arrives, is beautiful and terrible.” The Time After helps us grasp our shared responsibilities and loss in a tragedy whose outcome is perhaps all too inevitable.
Fogelson’s gorgeous photographs are especially effective, leading us from complex manmade congestion and chaos to the song of forests renewing themselves to the last word of the conscience-free power of nature—climate, tides, time, and day becoming night.”
-Steven Nash
Executive Director
Palm Springs Art Museum
“Bauhaus Und Die Fotografie: Zum Neuen Sehen in der Gegenwartkunst” (Exhibition Book)
(English: Bauhaus and Photography: New Vision in Contemporary Art)
February 2019. 24,00 × 31,00 cm. 264 Hardcover, bound. Pages: 90 colored and 50 b/w illustrations. Languages: German, English. ISBN 978-3-7356-0547-4
Editor: Corina Gertz, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaden und Prof. Dr. Kris Scholz
Text by Ute Famulla, Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hemken, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaden, Prof. Dr. Kris Scholz
Design by Thomas Artur Spallek, Düsseldorf
Does the Bauhaus still contribute to further developments in photographic pictorial languages? What role does the avant-garde photography play for contemporary artists today? At the center of Bauhaus and Photography is the reconstruction of László Moholy-Nagy’s photography-section at the legendary 1929–1930 Werkbund-exhibition Film und Foto (Film and Photo). For the first time, the Neues Sehen (New Vision) of the 1930s as well as contemporary photographs, sculptures, and video installations enter into a seminal dialogue between the factual exhibition situation and virtual reality.
Artists: László Moholy-Nagy, Erich Consemüller, Marianne Brandt, Lucia Moholy, Viviane Sassen, Dominique Teufen, Daniel T Braun, Wolfgang Tillmans, Doug Fogelson, Max de Esteban, Stefanie Seufert, Kris Scholz, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Thomas Ruff, Antje Hanebeck, Douglas Gordon
https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/1659/Bauhaus-and-Photography
“new bauhaus chicago: experiment photography” (Exhibition Book)
English edition. Editor: bauhaus-archiv / museum für gestaltung. Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
25 x 23 cm, 141 pp., 208 colour ill., paperback
This richly illustrated volume offers views from both sides of the Atlantic at 80 years of photography from Chicago. at the new bauhaus and later the Institute of Design, teachers like László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes - followed by Arthur Siegel, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind - taught students a free approach to their medium, which would influence generations of photographers.
The bauhaus-archiv / museum für gestaltung, Berlin, has marked the beginning of the celebrations for the major bauhaus jubilee in 2019 by presenting its collection “new bauhaus photography”, which is one of a kind in Europe. it portrays the protagonists and institutions which have inspired, created, collected and presented photography to the public since the new bauhaus's founding in Chicago in 1937. The broad range of illustrations ranges all the way from abstract photograms and experiments with materials to series based on conceptual and process art. Contemporary works from Chicago complement this portrait and reflect on the bauhaus idea's significance for the present.
featuring works by Harry Callahan, György Kepes, Nathan Lerner, László Moholy-Nagy, Arthur Siegel, Aaron Siskind and many others.
https://www.bauhaus-shop.de/new-bauhaus-chicago-experiment-photography.html
“New York: A Photographer’s City”
Edited: Marla Kennedy. 2011Hardcover (Out of Print) Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications. 10.27in. x 9.78in. x 1.32in. ISBN: 9780847835843
An unparalleled compilation of contemporary photographs of New York City and its boroughs by famous and emerging artists. New York City has experienced extreme flux over the last ten years. Today, contemporary photographers from all over the world have been capturing the City, its dynamic boroughs, and all its transformations, offering views, cityscapes, and vignettes we've not seen before. New York: A Photographer's City is a world-class look at the city, reflecting the avant-garde spirit of New York and containing previously unpublished work by well-known and emerging contemporary artists. This volume includes more than 350 images from all five New York City boroughs by more than one hundred artists such as Jack Pierson, Atta Kim, Doug Aitken, Joel Meyerowitz, Andreas Gursky, Tim White Sobieski, Ed Burtynsky, Thomas Struth, Jenny Holzer, and Michael Eastman, among many others, which not only document the city but also reflect and explore an innovative perspective of New York in the twenty-first century. New York: A Photographer's City reveals a post-9/11, visually fresh approach to the City and will appeal to both fans of art photography and of New York.
https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/new-york-photographers-city
“Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority”
Chicago is home to some of the best art and architecture known to man; its legacy of innovation, creativity and cultural diversity has helped shape today’s world of modern art and architecture. What few realize is that what’s helped shape the city of Chicago has been the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).
Since the start of ‘L’ service in 1892, Chicago’s public transit system has connected people, communities and cultures, while also serving as a source of inspiration for creative minds around the world.
Reflective of the communities it serves, the CTA is a living, interactive gallery of innovative architectural designs and thought-provoking works of art created by marquee and up-and-coming talent, many of whom are local.
Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority, serves as a guide to the more than 70 works of art and 24 significant architectural elements showcased across the CTA system. Creation of the new book is part of CTA’s vision to expand and showcase public art across Chicago’s bus and rail system, while also enriching the experience and minds of those who travel the system each day.
https://ctagifts.com/products/elevated-art-and-architecture-of-the-chicago-transit-authority-book
“Chemical Alterations” (Zine)
2019. Softcover. 3-D Glasses.
Designed by Jennifer Bronson.
Jennifer Bronson and I created a little “catalog” of a selection from the Chemical Alterations series. It is a fun edit and layout, made even more special with the use of 3-D glasses (enclosed) though not necessary by any means. The glasses can -at times- really activate the colors from the film’s component layers. Closing one eye and then the other reveals different details. Contact the studio if you would like to purchase one of these: $50. w/shipping via media mail (US).