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Catalogue

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:20:31 +0000

Since the late 90s, Cape Town has become the location of choice for commercial photography and film shoots. The place is a shapeshifter – its streets and beaches, hills and homes made to mimic just about everywhere in the world.

Collected by Julian Faulhaber during several years he spent working in and amongst these shoots, the photographs of Catalogue reveal the world behind the perfect images we encounter on our screens and in glossy magazines.

Like a powerful advert Catalogue promises meaning: an answer, a solution, a way to sate human desires. But unlike an advert, that meaning is never quite revealed. It is always just out of reach, a turn of the page away, or just out of shot.

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Écrire avec le soleil

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:47:03 +0000

Écrire avec le soleil is an artist’s book designed by Sandrine Marc to present the work done during her research and creation residency at the Musée Nicéphore-Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône. The sequence of images explores the physical manifestations of light and takes a look at the recording media of the photographic medium since its invention, from… Continue reading Écrire avec le soleil

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The Perfect Crime: Concerning The Murder Of Reality

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:42:42 +0000

Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany’s six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality.

The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstageing scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that has served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.

In the book, the artistic examination is complemented with texts by Karen Fromm, Image Traces: Forensic Media and the Documentary Gaze, and sociologists Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann, Crime narratives as narratives of order. (https://kultbooks.com/)

German Photobook Award Bronze Winner (Dummy) 2023

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Catalogue

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:30:53 +0000

Catalogue began as a visual and humorous exploration of Helmut Newton’s SUMO book project, a “monumental milestone that surpassed everything that had been technically and conceptually dared up to that point” (Taschen, 1999). Catalogue is a book-object, a catalog of Peter’s own work, a product catalog for the object, that viewers or potential buyers hold in their hands and an artist’s book that thematizes the catalog itself.

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Das Objekt

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:21 +0000

The book series DAS OBJEKT is a critical and subjective reflection of icons and symbols used in photo handbooks to illustrate optical laws for photographers and those interested in photography. The 40 illustrations in this artist’s book reproduced in chronological order, are extracted from manuals published in Germany (Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, GDR, FRG) between 1928 and 2003. Through the detachment of their original context, these motifs reveal social developments, ideologies, and ideals – visualized by the respective creators – addressed to their imagined readership. Developments in the field of printing technology and industrial book printing resonate with developments within graphic design.

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NORMAL – Robert Olson

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:37:42 +0000

This swirl refers to a schematic representation of a color chart used in the 1991 edition of The Joy of Photography, a publication of the Eastman Kodak Company. It makes tangible how Western normative ways of thinking are embedded in the visualization and translation processes of photographic manuals.

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SPEKTRUM*

Katrin Kamrau — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:52:34 +0000

SPEKTRUM * is both, an artist publication and a catalog. SPEKTRUM * uses an open, participatory structure to embrace a triangle relationship between the publication itself, the reader, and the producer. Through reproductions of artworks, interviews, (exhibition-)texts, and exhibition views, the reader can delve into SPEKTRUM* — the artist’s field of interest — to collectively… Continue reading SPEKTRUM*

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Seeing a rainbow (through a window that isn’t there)

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:03:26 +0000

Seeing a rainbow (through a window that isn’t there) is a way to contemplate the modern, industrialized landscape. A scenery that is constructed by standard-formats: colors, language, architecture, traffic, nature,… .
Seeing a rainbow (…) shows the elementary beauty in the seemingly banal, as well the extraordinary. Everything we see is constructed by humans, we take everything for truth, normal, a grey zone. By using the metaphor of a rainbow (light + water – which everyone adores) the color spectrum is used to have a fresh view on what we are tired of seeing.

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Im Glas – Collectors Edition

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:09:47 +0000

This numbered & signed collectors edition of Im Glas No. 1 – 10 of the total printrun of 50, includes a C-print of Slit Backdrop No. One.

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