{"product_id":"16-grad-fische","title":"16 Grad Fische","description":"For nearly seven decades now, Walter Schels' work has straddled the lines between documentation and transformation, between formal rigor and an experimental spirit. Schels is best-known as an empathetic portraitist, one who explores the essence of his subjects in a minimalistic visual language. Whether young or old, elephant or wilted flower—at the heart of his portraits and long-term studies lie existential themes such as identity, birth and death. Schels' experimental work, however, has been comparatively overlooked: through overpainting, double-exposure, collage and polarization, he has increasingly moved into the realm of painting. Indeed Schels views photography as a changeable, open-ended process: \"An image is never finished,\" he says, referencing both his creative stance and the infinite possibilities of the darkroom. Walter Schels 16° Pisces. Photographs 1958-2026 brings together both halves of Schels' œuvre for the first time. Here we discover his acclaimed portraits alongside cutting-edge images including reshaped cityscapes of 1960s New York and recent abstractions using photographic chemicals and plant fragments. The book's title, not unlike its content, is poetic self-reflection: on the day of Schels' birth in 1960, the sun was in Pisces at precisely 16 degrees. From this constellation he has defined his artistic temperament: one of sensitivity, intuition, imagination, and an inexhaustible curiosity for his subjects.","brand":"Steidl GmbH \u0026 Co.OHG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57628877193542,"sku":"9783969995594","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/b3d4c4d79e7efd0c664a628e4287eb4136d11f9e5c3fb29f27dcb78e09ed3c32.jpg?v=1792224327","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/en\/products\/16-grad-fische","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}