Publisher's Synopsis
XL-Photography, with over 200 large-format works by 14 photographers, presents the photograph collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange assembled by Jean-Christophe Ammann, the Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. The pictures range from the ironic picture stories of Anna and Bernhard Blume to the landscape images by Axel Hutte, from interior photographs by Candida Hofer to provocative erotic stagings by Nobuyoshi Araki. Artists who have already made a name for themselves (Andreas Gursky, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Thomas Ruff, Beat Streuli and Thomas Struth) are featured next to younger talents still awaiting discovery (Baltasar Burkhard, Gunter Forg, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow and Jorg Sasse). More than a simple collection catalogue, the lavishly designed and produced book presents the essential positions of photographic art in the last ten years.
