Reservate des Augenblicks

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Reservate des augenblicks. Momentary Resorts. Published on the occasion of exhibitions at AR GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano; Centre Photographique dIle de France, Pontault-Combault; Fundacieoacute;n BBK, Bilbao; Gallery Robert Miller, New York; Museeacute;e Cheacirc;teau dAnnecy; RUPERTINUM, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Salzburg. 98 four-color and 17 black and white photographs by Walter Niedermayr. Essays in German and English by Sigrid Hauser, Francesco Bonami and Guy Tortosa. List of plates, exhibitions, bibliography, biography Design: Little Stars of Bethlehem (Manfred Veigl Georg Wagenhuber), Vienna 4to (cm 29x33). pp. 116. . Ottimo (Fine). . . Parr, Badger, 2006 . Tram stations, ski runs and panoramic terraces - the Alps are 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, Niedermayrs artistic, photographic eye captures the traces of the Alpine leisure industry as aesthetic 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 was created during three years of research in the Alpine region.