PhotoLit - data bank on photographic literature

Text engl. - Results of six conceptual portraiture projects, two of them based in Iceland.

Text engl. - Sequences of portrait photographs of the same model being immersed in different pools in Iceland.

Details of the water surface of the River Thames, London. - From Roni Horn: "A book is really a sensual, if not sexual experience and I use these books to focus people in this very intimate one-on-one relationship. The book can become a kind of mirror. The book has an inside and an outside. And then you enter it and it has a fixed sequence. It has a before and an after, there is a narrative implicit in it." From the publisher: "What do you see when you look at water? American artist Roni Horn suggests 95 answers, 95 directions, 95 possibilities. Here is water as it continuously reshapes itself. Here is a dictionary because water is the ultimate lexicon, because Horn's work is always about completeness. This incredible collection of digitally manipulated photographic images are from Horn's long-term project documenting the River Thames. With this project, she has now completed her study of the river, and this luxurious volume is a perfect final statement of the work."

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A journey through a locker room in Reykjavik.

Watercolor and/or graphite drawings by Roni Horn (reproduced actual size). Designed by Roni Horn in consultation with Klaus Baumgärtner. Beautifully printed on heavy fine matt art paper by Drukkerij Rosbeek bv, in Nuth, the Netherlands.These watercolor and graphite drawings were produced in 1982 during a two-month stay in a lighthouse off the southern coast of Iceland. This is the first volume in the series of the work, To Place, an ongoing series of publications. Each volume is a unique dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place. The books take as their starting point Iceland and the evolving experiences of the artist in this country. Fine. Out of print. Scarce.“ (Antiq. Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM, 04.2005).

Photographs by Roni Horn. A two vols boxed set.Volume 1 and 2 are each 48 pp., each with 22 four-color plates, beautifully printed on heavy fine matt art paper. Each volume is 8 x 10 inches, and are both housed in a mustard linen cloth clamshell portfolio box, with blind stamped title in black (portfolio box is 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches). The two volumes contain paired photographs (same sequence in each book) of hot springs near Geysirs, and portraits, taken between 1994 and 2000. This is the eighth volume in the series of the work, To Place, an ongoing series of publications. Each volume is a unique dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place. The books take as their starting point Iceland and the evolving experiences of the artist in this country. Fine. Out of print. (Antiq. Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM, 04.2005).

„Photographs and text (in English and Icelandic) by Roni Horn. Volume 1 (photographs): 96 pp., with 52 four-color and b/w plates, beautifully printed on heavy fine matt art paper. 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches. Volume 2 (text): 176 pp., with 1 four-color and 3 plates, and one map illustration with text, printed on fine matt art paper. Volume 1 is a collection of photographs united by the near invisible presence of the geothermally heated waters of Iceland. The structures built to access and utilize these waters range from the remote and inaccessible hot pot to power plants and baptismal fonts. The photographs were taken in Iceland between 1990 and 1993. Volume 2 is a collection of 36 texts -- short anecdotal pieces, essays and short stories gathered from the artist's experiences in Iceland. This is the fourth volume in the series of the work, To Place, an ongoing series of publications. Each volume is a unique dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place. The books take as their starting point Iceland and the evolving experiences of the artist in this country. Fine. Out of print.“ (Antiq. Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM, 04.2005).

Text engl. - Other edition: Special edition of 100 signed copies with a signed two-faced image in cloth box. All photographs taken in Iceland between 1990 and 2002. Motifs include some portraits of a person as well as birds, mud details, and landscapes on single sheets of papers printed both sides.

Text engl. Printed by Steidl, Göttingen. - Other edition: Special edition of 100 signed copies with paired signed photographs in cloth box. All paired photographs of hot springs near Geysir were taken in Iceland between 1994 and 2002. Photographs of Úlfur were taken in Reykjavik, March 2000. Enclosed in the box are two sb. brochures marked „Ginny Williams, Publisher“, and showing images of Geysirs and some portraits. Both brochures have an identical sequence of motifs, but there is an obvious small time lap between the individual exposures of both series.

Text engl. - The title refers to the abbreviation aka, e.g. „also known as“. A slim volume of non-chronological photographs of the artist from infancy to adulthood.

Text dt. - „Kürzlich waren in der Rotunde des Schirn in Frankfurt am Main 100 Bilder der US-amerikanischen Photographin Roni Horn ausgestellt, die sich mit der Vielschichtigkeit von Identität beschäftigten. Eine Auswahl ist auf Frankfurter Straßen und in Bahnhöfen weiterer Städte zu sehen, dort, wo sonst Werbeplakate hängen. Von allen im öffentlichen Raum photographierten Bildern aus blickt die französische Schauspielerin Isabelle Huppert den Betrachter an.“ (vZ in DGPh Intern 04.2014).