„Dieses Buch entstand unter Mitarbeit von Werner Gräff“. - A rare and influential title documenting Surrealism and Dadaism in film and photography, illustrated with reproductions of photographs and film stills by a variety of important figures, including Léger, Man Ray, Renoir and Richter himself. Both this title and Werner Graeff''s Es kommt der Neue Fotograf were published in conjunction with the Film und Foto exhibition organized by the Deutsche Werkbund, in Stuttgart. Richter was in charge of the film program during this important exhibition.- Other edition: Reprint: Zürich: Verlag Hans Rohr 1968.
“Dieser Bild-Text-Band gibt ein literarisches Portrait der Doppelstadt. Die Autoren, Photographen wie Schriftsteller, sprechen von ihrem Enthusiasmus und ihrer Melancholie beim Leben in dieser Stadt.” (Titelblatt).
Erstauflage 1980. - Evelyn Richter hat zwar die den größten Anteil der Bilder dieses Bandes photographiert, wird jedoch als Bildredakteurin des Buches bezeichnet (S.4).
Text dt., fr., engl. - Other ed.: Originally published on the occasion of the 1992 exhibition Sils, curated by Hans Ulrich-Obrist, at the Nietzsche House, Sils, Switzerland, by Oktagon Verlag in 1992. This new edition includes several minor changes. - From the publisher: " Whenever Gerhard Richter goes to Sils, a small town in the Swiss Alps, he makes photographs, some of which he overpaints and adds to his Atlas. Others he treats as autonomous works, as in those presented in this intimate artist's book. In the overpainted photographs, the levels of reality evident in photography are combined with those that exist in painting. However, the paired concepts prove redundant of both the realism in photographic representation and the abstraction in nonfigurative painting. The photographs reveal a parallel between both forms of painterly practice, evidence of the simultaneous existence of contradictory bodies of work in Richter's oeuvre.