Andreas Bertagnoll Wir / Noi

Photographer Andreas Bertagnoll's images are marked by imperceptible alienations. They don't betray fully what they're all about, refusing to do more than hint at something that goes beyond the image, something that is denied to the viewer. The scenes and their characters never tell the whole story; they leave the viewer with narrative gaps. This keeps us guessing at what happened before, how the story will continue, what is actually going on – all of this practically encoded using the stylistic means of photography. The setting for these scenes is Andreas Bertagnoll's home country of South Tyrol – for centuries part of the former Habsburg Crown land of Tyrol, and after World War I annexed by Italy. This is a place where the clichés of idyllic Alpine landscapes and "Bella Italia" contrast starkly with a sense of alienation, with political rifts and the traumas that still reverberate today from past violations and irritations. Bertagnoll, who studied photography in Milan, approaches this fragile homeland as an unobtrusive observer. He documents everyday life there without imposing any value judgments or facile interpretations.

Hardcover 24 x 20 cm 72 pages 48 color illustrations English, German, Italian Available ISBN 978-3-86828-423-2 2013

Artist:

Andreas Bertagnoll

Texts:

Daniela Billner, Hans Karl Peterlini

Design:

Kehrer Design

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