Astres Noirs (book + print)

by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick

Photographs: Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick

Publisher: chose commune

168 pages

Pictures: 79 (b/w)

Year: 2016

ISBN: 978-2-9548777-2-3

Comments: Hardcover, first edition, 1500 copies, language: engl/fr, 16 x 22 cm, signed book and print in the size of 15 x 15 cm

sold out

Astres noirs is the debut book for both Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick, artists who live thousands of miles apart whose peculiar photographic wanderings create a hauntingly beautiful dialogue. This book presents photographs taken on mobile phone cameras, devices used to capture their everyday in an impulsive and almost obsessional way, documenting life from their doorsteps to far afield.

Their photographs capture the commonplace such as water stains on asphalt, dust clouds and rays of light, and transform these into mesmerising frames – elusive fragments that evoke an imaginary creature, a milky way, a phosphorescent silhouette…

Presented together, their combined voices lead us on a journey into unexplored territory, somewhere between the everyday and paranormal, between night and day. Amongst enveloping darkness, lightness is revealed, dazzling and miraculously caught by discerning eyes.

Selected by TIME as one of the Best Photobooks 2016

More books by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick

• 

  Astres Noirs (last copy - first edition)
  by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick
  sold out

• 

  Astres Noirs (second edition- signed)
  by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick
  sold out

more books tagged »fantasy« | >> see all

• 

  Ficciones (signed)
  by Sun Yanchu
  sold out

• 

  Endstation Sehnsucht. Der Wiener Prater (signed)
  by Frank Robert
  Euro 44

• 

  Endstation Sehnsucht. Der Wiener Prater (book + print)
  by Frank Robert
  Euro 95 76.00

• 

  Donde no puedas verme (signed)
  by Saraí Ojeda
  sold out

more books tagged »German« | >> see all

• 

  Places of Worship
  by Andreas Duscha
  sold out

• 

  More Cars, Clothes and Cabbages
  by Torsten Schumann
  sold out

• 

  Hong Kong Rubber Boots and Shoes (signed - last copy)
  by Michael Wolf
  sold out

• 

  Museum. 55 Lichtbilder von André Köhler
  by André Köhler
  sold out

• 

  Nein, Onkel (last copy)
  by various photographers
  Euro 165

• 

  Hong Kong Coat Hangers
  by Michael Wolf
  sold out

more books tagged »surreal« | >> see all

• 

  Walk to the moon (signed)
  by Suffo Moncloa
  Euro 49

more books tagged »Australia« | >> see all

• 

  Thirtyfour Parking Lots (signed)
  by Takashi Homma
  sold out

• 

  Belco Pride
  by Lee Grant
  sold out

more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all

• 

  Frowst
  by Joanna Piotrowska
  sold out

• 

  The Bolshoi
  by Sasha Gusov
  sold out

• 

  Transmission (signed - last copy)
  by Lucy Helton
  sold out

• 

  Corpus (signed)
  by Daisuke Yokota
  sold out

• 

  Printed Reflections (signed)
  by Kateryna Snizhko
  Euro 38.50

• 

  Life is Good & Good for You in New York
  by William Klein
  sold out

more books tagged »documentary« | >> see all

• 

  Josef Koudelka
  by Josef Koudelka
  Euro 75

• 

  RESTRICTED AREAS
  by Danila Tkachenko
  sold out

• 

  3DPRK (signed)
  by Matjaž Tančič
  sold out

• 

  Anderswo (signed)
  by Erich Lessing
  Euro 165

• 

  My Lagos
  by Robin Hammond
  Euro 95

• 

  East End Dancers and Chancers
  by David Hoffman
  sold out

Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com

• 
  Shomei Tomatsu & Ken Domon - Hir...
  
• 
  Eugene Atget - Lichtbilder
  
• 
  Nobuyoshi Araki - Xerox Photoboo...
  
• 
  Klaus Staeck - Pornografie