Let’s Judge the Book by Its Cover

Until 6 October at Verpan, and Bang & Olufsen
Exhibition in three design shops in Aarhus, before, during and after Photobook Week Aarhus 2017. The selection shows contemporary photobooks featuring distinguished covers, bindings and packaging materials, to show the importance of editorial design to creating sensorial experiences.

Curators: Moritz Neumüller, Festival Curator, and Irène Attinger, Chief Librarian of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.

The Leporello Book:
The city as a sign in circulation

Until 27 October at Aarhus School of Architecture
Referring to the festival’s overall framework “Distribution and Markets” this historical photobook exhibition will discuss the mass-produced travel books of the 19th century and their impact on the global development of the city as a commodity and tourist attraction. The exhibition focuses on a particular photobook typology: the leporello book – its modern visual culture and the role of architectural photography in this context.

Curator: Anne Elisabeth Toft, Associate Professor, Architect, PhD in Architecture and Photography.

From Image to Structure: The Representation of the New City in Danish Architecture and the Visual Arts

On show until 27 October at Aarhus School of Architecture
This exhibition explores visual strategies of artists and architects who engage with the late-modern city. It pays particular attention to the works of Institut for Skalakunst and Carsten Juel-Christiansen.  It includes archival material, photographic works, artists’ and architectural books and covers a period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.

Curators: Anne Elisabeth Toft Associate Professor, PhD in Architecture and Photography, and Claus Peder Pedersen, Associate Professor, Architect, PhD.

Michael Schmidt – Photobooks
by Thomas Wiegand

On show until 21-24 September at Aros Aarhus Art Museum
For Photobook Week Aarhus 2017, Thomas Wiegand will curate an exhibition on Michael Schmidt’s photobooks, to be shown at Aros Aarhus Art Museum, and present the lecture Collecting Photobooks: Schmidt & Company. This talk will focus on the photobook as an object: What defines a photobook as a book and which books are worth collecting? What do you have to pay attention to when buying one? In addition to general examples, this is illustrated with many pictures using the books and catalogues of Michael Schmidt and by means of German company books. Photographically illustrated company books are a rather unknown field in which surprising discoveries are made.

List of publications

Michael Schmidt, Berlin Kreuzberg, Berlin: Bezirksamt Kreuzberg, 1973 (1. Auflage, Texte Reinhold Amonat/Ingrid Hengge und Achim Kuhlow)

Michael Schmidt, Berlin Kreuzberg, Berlin: Schütz-Verlag, 1974 (2. Auflage, hg. v. Michael Schmidt/Erika Bräuel, Texte Michael Schmidt, Vorwort Friedrich Voss)

Michael Schmidt, Photographien, Berlin: Galerie Springer, 1975 (Text Karl Pawek)

Michael Schmidt, Berlin – Stadtlandschaft und Menschen, Berlin: Stapp Verlag, 1978 (Text Heinz Ohff)

Michael Schmidt, Berlin-Wedding. Stadtlandschaft und Menschen, Berlin: Galerie und Verlag A. Nagel, 1978 (hg. v. Bezirksamt Wedding, Text Heinz Ohff, Vorwort Horst Bowitz)

Michael Schmidt – Stadtlandschaften (Aspekte der Großstadt – zeitgenössische deutsche Fotografie), Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1981 (Leporello)

Michael Schmidt, Stadtlandschaften 1981, Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1981 (hg. v. d. Fotografischen Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen. Katalog in der Ausstellungsreihe „Aspekte der Großstadt“)

Michael Schmidt, Benachteiligt, Berlin: Senator für Gesundheit, Soziales und Familie, 1982 (Text Ernst Klee, Vorwort Ulf Fink)

Michael Schmidt, Berlin-Kreuzberg. Stadtbilder, Berlin: publica Verlag, 1984 (hg. v. Bezirksamt Kreuzberg)

Michael Schmidt/Einar Schleef, Waffenruhe, Berlin: Nishen Verlag, 1987 (hg. v. d. Fotografischen Sammlung der Berlinischen Galerie, Text Einar Schleef, Nachwort Janos Frecot)

Michael Schmidt/Bilder 1979 – 1986, Hannover: Spectrum Photogalerie im Sprengel

Museum, 1987 (Text Dieter Hacker)

Michael Schmidt – Waffenruhe (Aspects of contemporary German photography), München: Goethe Institut, 1989 (Text Ute Eskildsen) +

A Decade of Icelandic Photobooks 2007-2017

On show until 27 October at Aarhus School of Architecture
The publication of photobooks has increased notably in Iceland in the last ten years, while few were seen in the preceding decades, and the first being published as late as the seventies. Significant change came in 2007 with the founding of ICPA—the Icelandic Contemporary Photography Association—aimed at increasing the visibility of artistic photography. In 2008 the National Museum of Iceland published a book featuring works of ICPA’s founders, Reflection – Icelandic Contemporary Photography, including interviews with the artists.

The exhibition consists of this photobook and eighteen others published in the last ten years. All publications in this selection are by artists working in Iceland, with about half published by Crymogea Publishers, a leading publisher of art and photography.

Curators: Katrin Elvarsdottir, Director of The Icelandic Photography Festival in Reykjavik.

Nordic Dummy Award 2017

Until 27 October at Aarhus School of Architecture
Nordic Dummy Award (NDA) is awarded annually by Fotogalleriet, Oslo. The winner of the Nordic Dummy Award will be announced in September. During NDA’s open call all artists with a connection to the Nordic countries are invited to submit their photobook dummies by 15 August. A recognised jury selects a shortlist of candidates and a winner. The shortlisted books including the winner are exhibited and announced during Landskrona Foto Festival. The winning book is published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg and launched the following year.

Fotobook Festival Kassel Dummy Award 2017

Until 27 October at Aarhus School of Architecture
Each year, Fotobookfestival Kassel invites photographers to present their so-far unpublished photobooks to an international public and to eminent experts. In 2017, the best 49 books have been shortlisted by a shortlist jury and will be exhibited at international photo events in, among other places, Istanbul, Moscow, Rome, Madrid, Dublin, Aarhus, Sofia, Zagreb and Lodz. From these 49 titles, three winners have been chosen by our international jury at the Istanbul Photobook Festival on 28 April.

DUMMY AWARD KASSEL 2016 WINNERS
Third place: Grinders, Hannes Wiedemann
Second place: Untitled, Zeynep Kayan
First place: Archipiélago, Hugo Alcol