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Lukas Felzmann

Lukas Felzmann
Born (1959-01-25) 25 January 1959 (age 65)
Zürich, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Known forPhotography

Lukas Felzmann (born 25 January 1959) is a Swiss photographer and teacher. His work examines the intersection of nature and culture through sculpture, conceptual books, and photography.[1][2]

Felzmann has taught in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University for 25 years.[1][2] He has also taught at the California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Arts Education Project, and the San Francisco Art Institute.[3][4] He is currently an Affiliate Scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford.[2]

Background and education

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Felzmann was born in 1959 in Zürich, Switzerland. He moved to America in 1981 to earn a Master's of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.[1]

Works

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Landfall

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Landfall (2004) is a monograph that contains: photographs taken between the Great Basin Deserts, Sierra Nevada, and the Pacific Ocean on the west coast of the US[5] of abandoned buildings and roads, flotsam and jetsam; and an essay by Peter Pfrunder.[6] Part travel diary, meditation, and guidebook[7] this collection of photographs is described by Peter Pfrunder as, "an inner journey that leads, as in a dream, into the observer's deeper, subconscious zones rather than to a real place."[5] It reads like a visual novella.[7]

Waters in Between

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Waters in Between (2009) is a monograph examining the relationship between how humans relate and attempt to control nature[2] through photographs of the Sacramento Valley and short texts by John Berger and Angelus Silesius.[8] The book emphasizes how the role of water—its historical flooding cycles compared with modern canals and underground systems—has transformed the marshland of the valley. The intention is to create what Felzmann calls, "a sort of poetry of ruins."[3][9]

Swarm

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Swarm (2011) is a monograph with photographs of migrating birds and essays by Peter Pfrunder, Gordon H. Orians, Deborah M. Gordon, and Wallace Stevens.[10] It investigates and celebrates flight, considering how a system without a hierarchy nor centralized control works.[2][10] Sequenced photographs of birds close-up, in functioning groups, and in relation to their surrounding landscape reveal how this complex system operates.[11][12]

Gull JuJu

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Gull JuJu (2015) is a monograph about the Farallon Islands. Felzmann continues his photographic investigation of migratory birds while also documenting human objects regurgitated by western gulls on the island alongside photos of the island's geology.[13][14] While observing the interactions between the handful of scientists who work on the island and the island's animals and geology, Felzmann discovered an old box that said, "Gull Juju Archive. Strong Juju." This box contains those regurgitated objects, whereby he photographed and included every item from the box in this monograph as he felt, "the gulls had already done the editing."[2][15][16][17] These items evoke the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which highlight the degradation of the marine environment through these human objects.[2][15]

Apophenia

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Apophenia (2018) is a monograph that includes two archives of images. One is postcards sent to his father. The other is his own photographs.[18][19][20] Apophenia is the tendency to perceive patterns in random information, which is prompted by the weaving of these two archives.[19][21]

Selected grants, awards, and commissions

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Felzmann was a Headland's artist in resident in 1991.[22] He is also the recipient of two grants of the Federal Department of the Interior, Switzerland,[1] two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, US,[1] an International Photobook Award from Kassel Germany, 2009,[23] and the Best International Photobook of the Year Award from PHotoEspaña, Spain, 2012.[10][24] In 2018, Felzmann was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in photography.[1][2]

Publications

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Selected anthologies

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Exhibitions

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Collections

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Felzmann's work is held in the following public collections:[43][44][45]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lukas Felzmann". Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lukas Felzmann | The Bill Lane Center for the American West". west.stanford.edu. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Lukas Felzmann: Waters in Between". Bolinas Museum. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e Schweiz, Fotostiftung. "Fotostiftung: Lukas Felzmann". Fotostiftung (in German). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  5. ^ a b Schweiz, Fotostiftung. "Fotostiftung: Lukas Felzmann: Landfall". Fotostiftung. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  6. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (22 March 2016). Lukas Felzmann – Landfall. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-907078-92-1.
  7. ^ a b "photo-eye Bookstore | Landfall by Lukas Felzmann | photobook". www.photoeye.com. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  8. ^ Felzmann, Lukas; Silesius, Angelus; Berger, John (22 March 2016). Waters In Between. ISBN 978-3-03778-138-8.
  9. ^ "Lukas Felzmann – Waters in Between". PhotoBook Journal. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  10. ^ a b c Felzmann, Lukas (22 March 2016). Swarm. Lars Müller. ISBN 978-3-03778-241-5.
  11. ^ "BOOK REVIEW: Lukas Felzmann – Swarm | BOOK REVIEW by Tim O'Brien – F-Stop Magazine – A fine art photography". www.fstopmagazine.com. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Lukas Felzmann – Swarm". PhotoBook Journal. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  13. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (22 March 2016). Gull Juju. Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-449-5.
  14. ^ "F-Stop Magazine". F-Stop Magazine. 1 August 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  15. ^ a b "Book Review: Gull Juju". Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  16. ^ "Lukas Felzmann : Saint Lucy". Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Lukas Felzmann – Gull Juju". PhotoBook Journal. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  18. ^ "Codax Publisher". www.codax-publisher.com. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Lukas Felzmann – Apophenia". PhotoBook Journal. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  20. ^ "Lukas Felzmann". Cornerhouse Publications. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Photography, Archives, and Apophenia: Lukas Felzmann on the Intersection of Nature and Culture | The Bill Lane Center for the American West". west.stanford.edu. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  22. ^ "Lukas Felzmann". Headlands Center for the Arts. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  23. ^ "Kassel Photobook Award 2009 – FOTOBOOKFESTIVAL KASSEL". Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  24. ^ GemaLaMirada (23 May 2012). "Los mejores libros de fotografía del año premiados en PHotoEspaña 2012". Xataka Foto (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  25. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (2004). Landfall. Peter Pfrunder. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller. ISBN 3-907078-92-6. OCLC 55636194.
  26. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (2008). Helix. Place of publication not identified: Cavallo Point. OCLC 781999945.
  27. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (2009). Waters in between : an archive of a marsh. Angelus Silesius, John Berger. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers. ISBN 978-3-03778-138-8. OCLC 213114100.
  28. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (2011). Swarm. Peter Pfrunder. Baden. ISBN 978-3-03778-241-5. OCLC 751836938.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  29. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (2015). Gull juju : photographs from the Farallon Islands. Zürich, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-03778-449-5. OCLC 913921992.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  30. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (2018). Apophenia. Peter Pfrunder, Jürg Trösch, Markus Bosshard. London. ISBN 978-3-96098-259-3. OCLC 1023865932.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  31. ^ Loetscher, H; Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland) (1992). Photographie in der Schweiz von 1840 bis heute: Sweizer Photographie (in German). Bern: Benteli-Verlag. OCLC 85931449.
  32. ^ Made in Switzerland : les collections de photographies de la Confédération = aus den Fotosammlungen der Eidgenossenschaft = dalle collezioni di fotografie della Confederazione : [exposition, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, du 29 novembre 1997 au 1er février 1998] : [catalogue]. Patrizia Crivelli, Andreas Münch, Tobia Bezzola, David, Kunsthistoriker Streiff, Natascha Muther, Gilles Cuenat. Zürich: Verlag Hochparterre. 1997. ISBN 3-9520855-6-1. OCLC 84633245.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  33. ^ Golay, Laurent; Musée historique de Lausanne (2004). Images du monde: une histoire de la cartographie (in French). Lausanne: Musée historique de Lausanne. OCLC 266071264.
  34. ^ Pfrunder, Peter; Fotostiftung Schweiz; Limmat Verlag (2015). Kindheit in der Schweiz Fotografien = Enfances Suisses (in German). Limmat Verlag. ISBN 978-3-85791-782-0. OCLC 909788546.
  35. ^ Felzmann, Lukas (16 May 1991), Room for Endangered Species, retrieved 27 February 2021
  36. ^ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998). Picturing modernity : highlights from the photography collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Douglas R. Nickel. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0-918471-46-X. OCLC 38738931.
  37. ^ "2001 Exhibitions". SF Camerawork. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  38. ^ Schweiz, Fotostiftung. "Fotostiftung: Lukas Felzmann". Fotostiftung. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  39. ^ Schweiz, Fotostiftung. "Fotostiftung: Lukas Felzmann: Landfall". Fotostiftung. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  40. ^ "LANDFALL". Khatt Foundation. January 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  41. ^ Stanford, Stanford University; Notice, California 94305 Copyright Complaints Trademark (29 October 2008). "Ghostpile ponders Sacramento Valley". Stanford University. Retrieved 27 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  42. ^ "A Chance for the Unpredictable: Lianzhou Foto Festival". Pro Helvetia Shanghai. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  43. ^ "Lukas Felzmann CV" (PDF). Stanford Department of Art & Art History.
  44. ^ "Lukas Felzmann CV" (PDF). Semina Rerum Gallery.
  45. ^ "photoCH". www.foto-ch.ch. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  46. ^ "E-Pics FSS Sites". fss.e-pics.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2 March 2021.