First edition, French/Italian issueLes territoires de l’instant / Riserve dell’instante by Walter Niedermayr. Published simultaneously in two bilingual editions (French/Italian and German/English) by Hatje Cantz, 1999.
First impression
Large format hardback in near fine condition
Some minor wear to dust jacket, now in a removable protective sleeve
Soft compression to the top of front board and spine, page block unaffected
Some very minor toning to extremities of pages
Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm
114 Pages , 115 Photos
About
For three years, the South Tyrolean photo artist has been following in the footsteps of the leisure industry in the mountains: “He shows us the Alps as we’ve never seen them before.” Stuttgarter ZeitungCable railway stations, ski runs and panorama terraces – the Alps a playground for winter sports fans and enthusiastic mountain climbers: a populated Alpine leisure park … In his tableaus from close-up photos Walter Niedermayr documents the effects of Alpine tourism on the mountain world. But his pictures on the injuries to the landscape are by no means pure photographic depictions of reality: he works in a subtle way with minimal changes of angle and viewpoint, and uses scarcely perceptible alterations to combine individual pictures into disturbing photo arrangements, achieving an intensity of seeing. At the same time, Niedermayr’s artistic photgraphic eye captures the traces of the Alpine leisure industry as aethetic signs and lines in the landscape. The moments of tension in his photos emerge not least from the individualistic ambivalence between the beautiful appearance of the composition and the knowledge of the vulnerability of the mountain world and the ecological danger it faces. Momentary Resorts is a collection of Walter Niedermayr’s most recent work, created during three years of research in the Alpine region.
