RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes
Iceland 2004-2015
Glaciers, volcanoes, and caverns: the Swiss photographer Bernd
Nicolaisen compiled unique images of these features of the landscape
in the pictures he took in Iceland between 2004 and 2015.
He paid special attention to the Breiðamerkurjökull, a glacial lobe
of the Vatnajökull located in the southeast of the country, a place
he visited several times and observed extensively. Much time
was spent on capturing aspects of the glacier with an eight-byten-
inch large-format camera. His photography, initially in analogue
before progressing to digital, requires a lot of time and effort
to “transform what is basic into what is unique.”
The pictures depict nature in a seemingly untouched and magical
way, and often appear to be images from a remote planet, showing
places of solitude, silence, melancholia, and even spirituality.
In his conceptual design of natural forms, human intervention
rarely, if ever, becomes apparent. No humans, creatures, or signs
of civilization are portrayed, so that the sublime, wild, and pristine
qualities in the grandiose nature of glaciers, arctic sea, and
mountain ranges can be appreciated. Abstract shapes invite the
spectator to behold and linger.
Nothing is staged, yet the images achieve a virtually radiant magic.
They show the magnitude and majestic dignity of glaciers, composed
into seemingly uneventful panels of stillness and calm. Monochrome
tones and detailed surface structures appear, sometimes
in captivating colors, ranging from surreal deep blue to shiny turquoise
and sometimes fine hues of gray. Spectacular formations
and the smallest lines and shapes are visible, and tiny details appear
as ornaments in the high resolution and perfect quality of the
pictures, which Nicolaisen develops and prints himself.
Nicolaisen’s Restlicht photographs show the juxtaposition of
opposing elements — ice and lava — in caves of a thousand years of
glacial ice formation.
CATALOG
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN, Photographs, Tableaux, Lightboxes, Iceland 2004-2015
RESTLICHT BERND NICOLAISEN
Photographs – Tableaux – Lightboxes - 2004-2015, Iceland
Foreword by Prof. Klaus Honnef, with texts by Dr. Andrea Henkens, Andreas Staeger, Christoph Sigrist and Stephan Reisner, 2015.
Design: W. Stähli, Phorbis Communication
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
German / English. 192 Pages, 103 Images 245 x 295 cm hardback
ISBN 978-3-7757-4061-6 (Deutsch, English)