Thomas Neumann. Exakte Vertrauensgrenzen. Fotografie seit 1994 / Exact Confidence Limits. Photography since 1994

SIGNED

Texts by Durs Grünbein, Gabriele Muschter, Eva Pluharova-Grigiene, Karl Schlögel, Uwe Warnke, Gestaltung von Neil Holt

Hatje Cantz, 2020, 128 pp., 127 ills., Deutsch, Englisch, hardcover with dust jacket, 29,00 x 21,50 cm, German/English

Version with Japanese translation is available for 47 Euro incl. worldwide shipping.

Collectors edition of 13 (including framed C-Print 21,6x25,7 cm, frame 25,5x31,5 cm) is available for 290 Euro incl. worldwide shipping.

ISBN 978-3-7757-4759-2

Since the 1990s Thomas Neumann has been traveling through the countries of the former Soviet Union, taking pictures. The artworks and travel photos he has created have now found their way into the volume Exakte Vertrauensgrenzen. In it the photographer tracks the spheres of images and meaning at the sites of Soviet socialism, after the system’s promises of progress and a brilliant future dissolved. His own background allows him to travel with a certain amount of knowledge and experience, as well as a dose of skeptical curiosity. Questions arise about himself and how he is embedded in the collective experiences of an ideological system designed to last forever, but which came to an abrupt end, instead. Neumann’s archive does not offer a coherent narrative. His low-key pictorial observations invite viewers to accompany him on a journey whose interpretation remains open-ended.

THOMAS NEUMANN (*1975, Cottbus) studied fine art and photography under Bernd Becher and Thomas Ruff at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. His works have been seen at such institutions as the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and the Technische Sammlungen, Dresden. Among his previous publications are The Japanese Series (2015), Sternenflug und Apfelblüte (2013)