Katharina Sieverding

This book presents an overview of the long career of German photographer Katharina Sieverding, celebrated internationally for her use of unusual pictorial invention and innovative media-based practice that helped to revive the artistic potential of photography. Designed largely by Sieverding herself, this book presents forty-two groups of works from 1967 to 2017, including her greatly enlarged portraits in film and photographs, large-format montages on the state of the world from the 1970s, installation photos, self-portraits, and more. The resulting book presents an artist of great range, sensitivity, and expression, always pushing the medium of photography in new directions and towards new discoveries.

Internationally recognised as a pioneer of unconventional visual strategies and an innovative media-led creative practice, Katharina Sieverding has revitalised the artistic potential of photography. She introduced the super-sized format as a key element of her exhibitions at a time when this was far from common practice. An assertion-turned-object, the large format manifests itself in space in the form of projections after experimentation with different sizes. Sieverding's serial photographic works give expression to reflections about identity, gender discourses and the necessary emancipation of the role of the female artist as well as about the current social, political and cultural climate. Her archive is a repository of recollections and knowledge.