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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Christoph Keller |
Publisher | Verlag Bernd Detsch |
Year | 2017 |
Cover | Paperback with flaps |
ISBN | 978-3-940602-07-7 |
Pages | 317 |
Weight | 1780 g |
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Article ID | art-15902 |
Today, with google earth on every device, seeing the world from above has become a part of everyday life. Still, back in the 1980s it was a novelty to see your own home from a bird’s-eye view and people would buy such pictures and enjoy the change of perspective on their own home.
This is how the archive that Peter Piller used for the publication Von Erde schöner [Prettier from Earth] came to be: 12.000 photographs taken between 1979 and 1983 and sold from door to door by a cunning businessman. They show the bleak, conventional, often generic and sometimes overly personalized houses of German homeowners. Working with this massive collection of aerial shots, a task Piller described as a journey into his own past, he selected 300 pictures, sorting them by similarities, thereby creating a slight storyline throughout the book.
Swaying between comedy and sad truth, the revealing photographs not only allow a journey into the past: they accomplish to show the raw everyday life of real people. Also, through the artist’s sorting, they bear testimony to the amazing resemblance of their behaviour: from similar building methods of the houses themselves and mistakable cars to pedantically laid garden tiles, less-than useful mini-pools or ugly excavations.
With the first publication being rare and sought-for, we can now present a new edition at Verlag Bernd Detsch. Not only is it revised and of improved quality thanks to advanced printing technology, the artist insisted on it to be a reasonably-priced paperback.
Brad Feuerhelm for ASX about Peter Piller: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2017/09/peter-piller-unheimlich-as-above.html