SIGNED; Tobias Zielony - Trona. Armpit of America (MINT CONDITION) - 2008

GREAT, EARLY, SCARCE and SOUGHT-AFTER publication by German cult photographer Tobias Zielony.
Published in 2008 in a small print-run - SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase it here:
SIGNED + BRANDNEW.

Signed by the artist.
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Showing pictures of young people in 'Trona', a mining settlement in California (more informations see below).

New, mint, unread.
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'In Tobias Zielony's works, the self-staging of the protagonists plays a not insignificant role in the image-making process. Through the intensive contact between the artist and the people he portrays, often lasting several months, relationships develop that take away the people's shyness and reticence in front of the camera. The confidence and self-confidence of moving in front of Zielony's camera leads to a self-chosen staging of the subjects, an aspect that not least determines the tension of the works. The gestures and poses with which many of the young people present themselves are based on images of gang and counter-culture conveyed by the media and are therefore neither to be understood as an authentic self-positioning nor as a reference to individual character traits of a quality of photography that is repeatedly emphasised. The deliberate self-staging in front of the camera, which can be understood here as an ethnographically motivated recording of various adaptation patterns of the most diverse youth cultures, refers to social standardisations to which the young people present here are subjected. They reflect themselves, their social environment and at the same time the subliminal influences of youth cultures conveyed by the mass media.'
(from the publisher)

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Spector Books, Leipzig. 2008. First edition, first printing.

Softcover (210 x 295 mm) with laid-in booklet (235 x 315 mm). 32 pages (24 pages photos, 8 pages text). Photos: Tobias Zielony. Text in English.

Beautiful early publication by Tobias Zielony in perfect condition - signed by the artist.

"Tobias Zielony is known for his photographic depictions of young people living on the fringes of affluent societies and social acceptance. For the past 20 years, Zielony has focused on suburban milieus that, from Canada to England, Ukraine, Israel, and Japan, have in common that they have fallen out of the promises of modernity's progress and are establishing a temporary life in their own cultural niches. What goes hand in hand with melancholy at the same time reveals a great human tenderness in the cohesion of precarious communities, which Zielony approaches and gives the space to stage themselves. In the process, Zielony's critical approach to documentary manifests itself in a specific aesthetic and relationship to fiction. His numerous institutional exhibitions include the German Pavilion in Venice 2015. Tobias Zielony is a professor in Hamburg since 2022.
Zielony´s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions recently such as Watching TV in Narva (KOW Berlin 2023), Dark Data (Marta Herford 2022) and Touch. Politiken der Berührung (EMOP Berlin, c/o Amtsalon 2023), Nach August Sander Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts (Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen 2022)."
(Wikipedia)