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Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage | 
 enlarge | Creators: Urs Odermatt, Arnold Odermatt
Publisher: Steidl
Category: Book
Buy New: $262.93
New (2) Used (7) from $83.94
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1323227
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Multitrack
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.8
Dimensions (in): 12.8 x 9.8 x 1.6
ISBN: 3882438665
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783882438666
ASIN: 3882438665
Publication Date: July 2, 2003
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Product Description
With thoroughness and a meticulous attention to detail, Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss canton of Nidwalden between 1939 and 1993. For 40 years, the Swiss police office recorded the wrecked cars left in the wake of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors, and plain foolishness, in poignant, sometimes funny, and always strange atmospheric photographs. Though Odermatt was not formally trained as a photographer, he made images that evidence a studied appreciation for romantic landscape scenes and a simultaneous attention to the clinical detail of an accident of police procedure. He created them as a personal corollary to the documentary photographs that typically accompany police and accident reports in his picturesque Alpine country. Art historically, they call to mind such diverse sources as Weegee's scene-of-the-crime pictures from the 1930s and 40s, and Andy Warhol's interest in the banal spectacle of disaster and accident in the 1960s. Wholly original and surprising, beautiful and haunting, Odermatt's pictures were only recently introduced to the art world--when Harald Szeeman exhibited them at the 49th Venice Biennale, they were virtually unknown.
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Sad still lives September 12, 2003
S. Dutton (London, England United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Calm, respectful black and white photos of car crashes, taken in the 1950s and 60s by a Swiss police photographer.
It's hard to explain why these images are so evocative and so much better than car crime TV shows and auto wreck websites.
Apart from a few solemn bystanders, there aren't any people in the pictures. The stillness of them is particularly striking. No blood and guts -- only the stories implied by twisted metal and chalked-in skid marks.
Highly recommended.
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