The German Photo Book Prize bronze medal has been awarded to Neue Wahrheit? Kleine Wunder! / New Truth? Small Miracles! which was published to accompany an exhibition that toured three venues across Germany.
The book looks at the development of photography from its origins up to the 1870s before phootgraphy became a mass amateur and popular pursuit. What makes this book (and the exhibitions) all the more remarkable is that it is based on the collection of Hans Gummersbach who has built a thoughtful collection with a particualr focus on the daguerreotype. The book consists of a series of essays and is very well-illustrated from Gummersbach's phenomenal collection.
As Grant Romer notes in a review of the book: 'This publication, the collection it is based on, and the history of it’s formation will become a landmark, embodying past understanding of what was Photography.'
Neue Wahrheit? Kleine Wunder! / New Truth? Small Miracles!
Sammlung/Collection Hans Gummersbach
Edited by Kunstmuseum Ahlen / Museum Georg Schäfer Schweinfurt
Text in German and English
Wienand, 2021,
Hardcover, 224 pages, €27
ISBN: 978-3868326314
Available here: https://www.amazon.de/Wahrheit-Kleine-Wunder-fr%C3%BChen-Fotografie/dp/3868326316
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