Roger Eberhard
Roger Martin Eberhard (born April 28, 1984 in Zurich ) is a Swiss photographer and publisher.
life and work
Roger Eberhard grew up in Birmensdorf and attended the Enge Cantonal School in Zurich. From 2003 to 2008 Eberhard lived in North America, first in Vancouver and from 2005 in Santa Barbara , California , USA , where he studied at the Brooks Institute.
In 2008, the American publisher Modernbook Editions published Eberhard's first monograph Callas . In 2009 he received the EWZ Selection Award for his Russia work So Long Cockaigne . The following year, the Zurich publishing house Scheidegger & Spiess published the second monograph Wilted Country (Ed. Walter Keller ), to which the German author Benedict Wells contributed “Three American Road Stories”. Bernhard Schlink preceded Eberhard's photographs in his third monograph, In Good Light (Scheidegger and Spiess, 2011), with the article “Be Perceived”. Peperoni-Verlag published Tumulus (2012), a collaboration between Eberhard and the Canadian artist James Nizam. In 2013 the same publisher published the book Norma , a photographic examination of Hasselwerder Strasse in Hamburg and Foucault 's theory of normalization .
In 2016 Scheidegger & Spiess published the book Standard , for which Roger Eberhard photographed the standard room of Hilton Hotels and the view from it in 32 countries . The Washington Post called the book "a journey of déjà vu". Benedict Wells contributed an essay on the monotony of hotels on reading tours.
Together with Ester Vonplon, Eberhard runs the art book publisher b.frank books, which he founded in 2012. Two to four books appear per year, among others by Saâdane Afif , Will Steacy and Jenny Rova.
After long stays in Berlin and Malta, Eberhard has been living in Zurich since 2017.
Books
- 2008, Callas, Modernbook Editions, ISBN 978-0-977882-89-2
- 2009, And the lake nearby, with Ester Vonplon, self-published
- 2010, Wilted Country, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich ISBN 978-3-85881-306-0
- 2011, In Good Light, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich ISBN 978-3-85881-328-2
- 2012, Tumulus, with James Nizam, Peperoni Books, Berlin ISBN 978-3-941825-30-7
- 2013, Norma, Peperoni Books, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-941825-47-5
- 2014, Martin Parr Looking at Books, b.frank books, Zurich ISBN 978-3-906217-03-1
- 2016, Standard, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich ISBN 978-3-858815-28-6
Web links
- Roger Eberhard's website
- B.frank books
- Publications by and about Roger Eberhard in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eberhard, Roger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eberhard, Roger Martin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |