Alfred Seiland

Alfred Seiland 2018 at the Pont du Gard

Alfred Seiland (* 1952 in St. Michael , Austria ) is an Austrian photographer and has been a professor of photography in the communication design course at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart since 1997 . He is best known for his long-term project Imperium Romanum, for which he has been traveling the extended Mediterranean region since 2006 and documenting the architectural and landscape traces of Roman antiquity in their relationship to the present.

life and work

Seiland was born in Styria in 1952 . As an autodidact , he has been working as a freelance photographer since the mid-1970s, where he was one of the first Austrian camera artists to opt for color photography right from the start, on the trail of role models such as Joel Meyerowitz , Stephen Shore and William Eggleston . During this time, he works for the magazines GEO , Merian , the Stern and the New York Times Magazine . His first book, East Coast - West Coast , emerged from the material of several trips through the United States between 1979 and 1986 . Between 1995 and 2001 he photographed numerous people for the well-known FAZ advertising campaign . There is always a clever head behind it , with which he "attracted international attention [...]" and was awarded prizes.

Seiland has been Professor of Photography at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart since 1997. The work of his project Imperium Romanum, which he has continuously developed since 2006, has been incorporated into several publications and an international exhibition.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York added Winter Landscape, Proleb, Austria from 1981 to its collection. In 2018, the Cologne filmmaker Wilm Huygen documented Seiland's photographic work for the five-part Arte documentary series “The legacy of the Romans - on the trail of Roman antiquity with photographer Alfred Seiland”.

Seiland's colored photographs are created in analog large format . The photographer lives and works in Leoben (Styria).

Exhibitions

• East Coast / West Coast
  • Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago , USA, 1987
  • Rupertinum , Salzburg, Austria
  • New gallery of the city of Linz , Austria
• pimp your collection: cars you drive me art, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum , Linz , 2011
• Alfred Seiland - There is always a clever head behind it 1995–2001 (photographs for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung campaign), Villa Grisebach , Berlin, July to August 2015

• Roman empire
  • Römisch-Germanisches Museum , Cologne , November 2013 to March 2014
  • National Museum of History and Art , Luxembourg October 2014 to February 2015
  • Rencontres d'Arles , Villa Méditerranée, Marseille , France, 2016
  • State gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz, March to August 2018
• Alfred Seiland. Retrospective. Albertina , Vienna , June to October 2018

Publications

• East Coast - West Coast. Photographs . Edition Stemmle, Kilchberg / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7231-0355-3 .
• Prague. Photographs. Ivan Klíma, Erna Lackner (texts) . Edition Stemmle, Kilchberg / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-905514-30-3 .
• Roman empire. Opus Extractum . Hartmann Projects Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-96070-006-7 .
• Roman empire. Opus extractum 2. Hartmann Books, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-96070-002-9 .

Awards

• Rupertinum Prize for Photo Art 1983
• World Press Photo 2005, 2nd prize in the category art and culture / single photos for the motif hanging gardens

Web links

Commons : Alfred Seiland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Andreas Langen: Interview with Alfred Seiland. In: hatjecantz.de. Hatje Cantz, September 1, 2013, accessed June 11, 2018 . 

• Alfred Seiland. In: artfacts.net. Retrieved December 29, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Prof. Alfred Seiland. In: abk-stuttgart.de. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, accessed on June 11, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Alfred Seiland biography. In: hartmannprojects.com. Hartmann Projects, accessed June 11, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Alfred Seiland. Retrospective. In: albertina.at. Albertina Vienna, accessed on June 11, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Alfred Seiland. In: kicken-gallery.com. Kicken Berlin, accessed on June 12, 2018 (English). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Alfred Seiland - There's always a clever mind behind 1995–2001. (PDF) In: grisebach.com. Villa Grisebach, 2015, accessed on June 11, 2018 . 
6. ^ Alfred Seiland Winter Landscape, Proleb, Austria 1981. In: moma.org. The Museum of Modern Art, accessed June 12, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Movies. In: Wilm Huygen. Retrieved January 9, 2019 (German). 
8. ↑ Photo project "Imperium Romanum" documents Roman traces. In: derstandard.at. Standard, March 15, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Alfred Seiland. Imperium Romanum Opus Extractum. In: hatjecantz.de. Hatje Cantz Verlag, accessed on June 11, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Alfred Seiland. ROMAN EMPIRE. In: landesmuseum.at. Upper Austrian State Museum, accessed on June 11, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Otto Breicha Prize for Photo Art. (No longer available online.) In: museumdermoderne.at. Museum der Moderne Salzburg, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2018 . 
12. ↑ 2005 photo contest, Arts and Entertainment, second prize singles. In: worldpressphoto.org. World Press Photo Foundation, accessed June 11, 2018 .