For A Fleeting Moment
Simone Kappeler
IIKKI
English
Hardcover
Edition 595/700
Includes Bandcamp code for accompanying music
104 pages
190 × 225 mm
2024
ISBN 9782958615734
For a Fleeting Moment is the first book by Swiss photographer Simone Kappeler, devoted exclusively to her Polaroid works created between 2011 and 2023. The photographs – sometimes delicate and dreamlike, sometimes strange and distant – were shot using various types of cameras and films, including infrared, disposable, and instant formats.
The book was created as part of a collaboration with Japanese musician Tomotsugu Nakamura, whose minimalist soundscapes are composed of acoustic fragments, electronics, and field recordings.
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About the Artist
Born in 1952 in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) where she lives and works, Simone Kappeler started taking pictures at the age of 11. After studying German literature and art history, she studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts. During a three-month trip to the United States in 1981, she took her first pictures using cheap cameras, especially the Diana camera.
Hasselblad, Leica, Diana, Brownie, Polaroid, disposable camera, expired or infrared films, since 1970, Simone Kappeler has explored all types of photographic techniques. Her work, experimental and poetic, reveals to us the curiously foreign world that surrounds us.
Since 1982, ongoing projects in southern France and the Grisons.1982/83, studio in New York, conceptual photography and Super 8 films. 1983/84, theater photographer, Schauspielhaus Zürich. 2009, six-week photographic study of Japan, 2015 studio in New York.
Her work was the subject of a first monograph: “Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964–2011”, edited by Hatje Cantz and is regularly exhibited in Galleries and Museum in Europe and United States.
www.bildhalle.ch/artists/36-simone-kappeler/overview
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About the Publisher
Since 2016, IIKKI is a French edition project which is the result of a dialogue between a visual artist and a music artist.
https://www.iikki-books.com/
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