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Dörte Eißfeldt

Weight	300 g
Dimensions	160 × 125 mm
printrun	print-run 1000 copies
Cover	hardcover, leporello
Supplements	with slipcase
printing	offset printed
coverage	29 pages, 27 pages with texts
Design by	Design by label, Hamburg
additional authors	texts by Johan van der Keuken and Monique David-Ménard
language	English / French / Dutch / German
ISBN	ISBN 3-923283-20-2
Publisher	published by European Photography, Göttingen
year	1990

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The photographs of Dörte Eißfeldt show materials or bodies, how we touch them and how they approach each other. Starting with one single, basic photo of a snowball in the palm of a hand, we are taken, through the multitude of prints, the different and contesting variations of light and dimensions of the image, from a cosmic spectacle — a sphere tumbling in a dark space — to a more intimate and erotic experience. Through the title, in the form of a play on words — Schnee-b-all, Snowball or Universe – evokes an almost cosmic poem … — Monique David-Ménard