Exhibitions
German Business Plants
City Library Heidelberg
03.09.–30.10.2021
Jahresgabenempfang 2018
Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
01.12.2018, 6 pm
Book Talk
Kehrer Galerie, Berlin
24.11.2018, 7pm
Gudberg Nerger, Hamburg
11. – 15.10.2018
Künstlerhaus Cuxhaven
27.05. – 03.06.2018
Book Signings
Paris Photo 2018
November 8, 15:00, booth SE06
Reviews
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY: July 23, 2018
THE NEW YORK TIMES LENS: July 2, 2018
Frederik Busch German Business Plants
The daily work routine of post-industrial society reveals an inexhaustible supply of stories and images; whether as sitcoms, as critical editorials or as government office statistics, sources from which we should learn about the socio-political and economic conditions of today’s working people. But what we all too often forget is that humans are not the only entities in the functioning office. Cacti, dracaena trees, and scheffleras populate medical practices, law firms, and job agencies, in order to bring a little life between the stacks of files and the computer screens.
In his photo series Business Plants, Frederik Busch shows us portraits of such plants in their operative states. Portraits taken over eight years, which discover office-botany with personal names and brief characterizations and in which we quickly realize that these plants are indeed »also only human beings«, their tragicomic existence interwoven in everyday questions about relationships, music, and fitness. The humoristic approach that Busch has chosen allows us however to confront these plants as individuals, simply as fellow creatures and not just merely things that submit to the civilizational superiority of the human species.
Hardcover with tipped-in plate
19,5 x 25,5 cm
128 pages
52 color ills.
German, English
Out of print
ISBN 978-3-86828-850-6
2018
Artists:
Design:
PBLC Design Hamburg
Product information "Frederik Busch"
The daily work routine of post-industrial society reveals an inexhaustible supply of stories and images; whether as sitcoms, as critical editorials or as government office statistics, sources from which we should learn about the socio-political and economic conditions of today’s working people. But what we all too often forget is that humans are not the only entities in the functioning office. Cacti, dracaena trees, and scheffleras populate medical practices, law firms, and job agencies, in order to bring a little life between the stacks of files and the computer screens.
In his photo series Business Plants, Frederik Busch shows us portraits of such plants in their operative states. Portraits taken over eight years, which discover office-botany with personal names and brief characterizations and in which we quickly realize that these plants are indeed »also only human beings«, their tragicomic existence interwoven in everyday questions about relationships, music, and fitness. The humoristic approach that Busch has chosen allows us however to confront these plants as individuals, simply as fellow creatures and not just merely things that submit to the civilizational superiority of the human species.
Hardcover with tipped-in plate
19,5 x 25,5 cm
128 pages
52 color ills.
German, English
Out of print
ISBN 978-3-86828-850-6
2018
Artists:
Design:
PBLC Design Hamburg
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