Beat Presser

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Beat Presser in his hometown Basel (2017)

Beat Presser (born July 14, 1952 in Basel ) is a Swiss photographer .

Life

At the age of 15, Presser decided to become a photographer.

In 1972 he went on a world tour of several months through the Middle East , Africa and Southeast Asia . In Hong Kong he met Walter Kägi, who put him in contact with the fashion photographer Onorio Mansutti . Presser began training as a photographer in 1973 with Mansutti in Basel, which he continued in 1974 with Peter Knapp in Paris . From 1975 he trained as a camera assistant for 16mm and 35mm in Basel. After a brief stint as a seaman, Presser worked in New York, among other places .

Presser had his first own photo exhibition Daydreams and Nightmares in 1976 at the Daniel Blaise Thorens Gallery in Basel. He then worked for various fashion photographers in Paris and published the photo magazine Palm Beach News (later The Village Cry ). In 1979 Presser moved to Bangkok , where he was employed as creative director in an advertising agency . He then returned to Europe, where he worked with, among others, Cyrille Kazis , Jacques Herzog , Pierre de Meuron and Mischa Schaub .

In the 1980s Presser worked closely with the director Werner Herzog and the actor Klaus Kinski . He documented the making of the films Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). The photos taken while working with Herzog and Kinski formed the basis of several illustrated books and exhibitions published by Presser, with which he toured around the world.

His first book Coming Attractions was published in 1983. From 1988 several stays in Madagascar followed . Together with his partner Vera Pechel, the photographic story From Fire to Religion was created . From 1991 the work was exhibited in Basel, Berlin, Bordeaux, Stuttgart, Worpswede and Dakar.

Presser's traveling exhibition Andohahela was shown in twelve cities in Madagascar in 2001 and attracted over 100,000 visitors. In September 2003 Presser received the Hasselblad Masters Photo Prize.

On behalf of the Goethe Institute , Presser repeatedly organized photography and film workshops in South America, India, Asia and Africa.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2011: Beat Presser - Klaus Kinski en America del Sur , Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogota
  • 2018: Once around the world. Photographs by Beat Presser , Art Space Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne

Group exhibitions

  • 2007: Beat Presser - Ecstatic Truth: Documenting Herzog Documenting , Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
  • 2007: Flowers for Anita , Museum Tinguely, Basel
  • 2010 Regionale - The Village Cry , Kunsthalle Basel

Works

  • Beat Presser: Coming attractions . 1st edition. IAC, Basel 1983.
  • Werner Herzog, Beat Presser: Cobra Verde. Movie book . 1st edition. Edition Stemmle, Schaffhausen, Zurich, Frankfurt / M., Düsseldorf 1987.
  • Beat Presser: Kinski. portrayed by Beat Presser. 1st edition. Parthas, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932529-80-4 .
  • Beat Presser: Alpine dream . 2nd Edition. Christoph-Merian-Verlag, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85616-181-3 .
  • Herbert Achternbusch , Beat Presser: Werner Herzog . 1st edition. Jovis, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-936314-31-4 .
  • Beat Presser: Oasis of Silence . 1st edition. Benteli, Wabern / Bern 2005, ISBN 978-3-7165-1396-5 .
  • Beat Presser: Kinski: photographed by Beat Presser; Nikolaus Günther Nakszynski . 1st edition. Moser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814177-1-5 .
  • Werner Herzog, Beat Presser, Vera Pechel: Dhow: Beatus Piratus on Sindbad's footsteps . 1st edition. Moser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812344-7-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Beat Presser ( memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at hutter-wirth.ch, accessed on October 18, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Beat Presser Biography at novotny-galerie.de, accessed on October 18, 2011
  3. ↑ Beat Presser ( memento of June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at hasselblad.com, accessed on October 18, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Presser, beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland