Andrew Phelps is an American photographer who has been living in Europe since 1990. His work is influenced by the cross-cultural lifestyle he now leads, dividing his time between the deserts of Arizona and the Alps of Austria. He works closely with the Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg as curator and board member and his personal work is represented by the Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg. Alongside a constant pursuit of new work, Andrew keeps a blog about special edition photography books called Buffet. Andrew is a member of the piece of cake project.

Andrew is available for commisioned assignments
as well as lecturing about his work.

When not photographing, Andrew likes to spend his time with his wife and 2 young daughters kayaking and scrambling in the mountains around town, trying to keep koi fish alive and well, and rumor has it that he makes the best chicken enchiladas in Salzburg, which isn’t hard to do.

 

 

 

NEWS AND EVENTS

 

 

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720 in the gallery 5020
Am Rande Der Balance
28. July, 2010

 

Some images from 720 will be shown in this group show in the Gallery 5020 in Salzburg. The show runs until Sept. 11.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my new self-published book

 

720 - (Two Times Around) is available now. Check out the details here or go straight to the BUFFET for more info.

You can see them live for the first time at the Fotobuch Tage in Hamburg from June 4-6. Where I will be around lecturing and looking at portfolios and hopefully relaxing a bit with alot of interesting books...

Make sure to stop by Robert Morat on Friday the 4th where there is a current show of NOT NIIGATA and I will be there signing books.

Hope to see you! 720 - (Two Times Around)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not Niigata at Robert Morat Gallery

opening: Fr. 7, May 2010

 

NOT NIIGATA will be shown in Hamburg, opening on Friday May 7th. I will be sharing the space with Richard Renaldi who will also be there in the evening. If you are around, please stop by.


 Robert Morat Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lens culture review

 

Not Niigata has a review at Lens Culture by Marc Feustel, who writes Eyecurious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

exposing time
group show at the Phoenix Art Museum
booksigning on March 10th, 7pm

 

A selection of HIGLEY images can be seen in the
"EXPOSING TIME" exhibition at the Norton Photography Gallery.

Also in the show are works by Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Milton Rogovin, Robert Weingarten.

I will be there for the book signing and reception: March 10, 7 pm

McDowell Road & Central Avenue
1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Show runs until June 27.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photoscala
a german review of Not Niigata

 

For those german readers, here is a review of NOT NIIGATA by the german magazine Photoscala by Marc Peschke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

best books of 2009
the Photo Eye list

 

Photo-Eye has asked me once again to join in listing what I found to be the best photo books of 2009. Its always a tricky endeavor, compiling such lists, especially this year when I did not buy as many books as usual and may not have had my horizons spread wide enough, but there are many interesting folks on the list, so it may be a good place to start.

 Photo-Eye Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not niigata - die zeit

 

For the germen speakers out there, Die Zeit has a series of Not Niigata images running this week.

 Die Zeit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

book signing at paris photo
Not Niigata at Rober Morat
booth A15, Paris Photo, Sat. Nov 21. 4 pm

 

I will be signing NOT NIIGATA books at the booth of Robert Morat on Saturday at 4:00 pm. Do stop by if you are at the fair. Booth A15.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOt niigata on flak photo

 

Flak Photo is featuring images from NOT NIIGATA throughout the month of November.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOT NIIGATA in eikon

 

A selection of NOT NIIGATA can be seen in the current issue of Eikon Magazine in their "Eyes on Japan" feature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahorn Magazine-NOT NIIGATA
Interview

 

Ahorn Magazine, an online photography publication edited by Daniel Augschoell and Anja Jasbär has just published an interview with me about the new NOT NIIGATA book. Please check it out and spend some time with their interesting project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(not) niigata done!

 

My new book NOT NIIGATA has been printed. I just received one copy in the mail, am thrilled to have made my second book with KEHRER. Hope to share it with you somehwere, sometime soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SI FEST 2009
Photo Festival Savignano, Italy
set.-Oct. 2009

 

This friday, Sept. 11th, the Photo Festival in Savignano Italy, SI FEST, will be opening up with a show titled "GLOBAL PHOTOGRAPHY,Looking at/Looking for". A selection of HIGLEY will be in this group show along with works by:

evan baden (USA)
catherine balet (F)
mathieu bernard-reymond (CH)
michele cera (I)
samantha cohn (USA)
jen davis (USA)
wolfram hahn (D)
alessandro imbriaco/francesco millefiori (I)
seba kurtis (ARG)
molly landreth (USA)
kalpesh lathigra (UK)
maria leutner (D)
andrés marroquín winkelmann (PERU)
colin pantall (UK)
andrew phelps (A)
marion poussier (F)
blerim racaj (UK)
richard renaldi (USA)
frank rothe (D)
carla van de puttelaar (NL)
shen wei (CHINA/USA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

new special edition
Book and Print from NOT NIIGATA

 

My new book available as a Special Edition - Pre-Sale - Print of Choice.

NOT NIIGATA

As with my last book HIGLEY, I am offering a pre-sale Special Edition Print of my upcoming book from my work in Japan.The book will be published in the late summer and this edition will only be available before it is released to stores in the fall.

NOT NIIGATA, 2009
28x28 cm, hardbound
ca 112 pages
ca 50 color images
ca 40,- Euro
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg

Special Edition, 100+5 e.a.
30 x 40 cm, C-print
128,- Euro + shipping*

By purchasing a Special Edition, you will receive a copy of the book before it is officially released. You can then choose from any image in the book. Each image is signed as a Special Edition image and is outside of the normal editions for this work.

To reserve a copy, please send me an email
aphelps@gmx.net

To see a preview of a few images, go to:
www.andrew-phelps.com/niigata

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current
2 places to see some work

 

You can catch some works in real life at...

 Deutsches Architekturmuseum

 Galerie im Traklhaus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honk if you love Higley
a new blog to save higley

 

Leslie Leroux, a native of Higley, AZ has started an informative site to raise awareness for the town of Higley and its surroundings. All of these places she is highlighting were the source and inspiration for my book project, so it is nice to see someone dealing with this pocket of homogenization on a historical level. She even made bumper stickers that say "Honk if you love Higley". I got mine, and I am sure I get a few puzzled looks on the roads of Salzburg.

Stop by for a visit: Make Higley Historic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Niigata, not niigata
new work is up

 

I finally made a tight(er) edit of the recent work from Japan, please take a look.

Niigata

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back home

 

I have to say I'm happy to be back in Europe after a great 3 1/2 weeks in Japan. In the midst of the editing process which is like taking a shower with someone flushing the toilet every 30 seconds; warm and cozy one minute, miserable and edgy the next. I will try to make a new "projects" link soon, looking forward to bringing some order to the selection.

I have posted a few images on the BUFFET, if you want to see the first of many.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thanks yuki

 

I have met an interesting artist and all around great guy in Shibata City. Yoshihara Yukihiro, is a media artist who has now taken on the massive task of bringing order to the archive of images which his family has accmlulated over the years. This doesn't sound like anything exrtrordinary to the average person like you or me who have a shoebox or two filled with snapshots or maybe a few hundred slides. But Yuki is the 6th generation photographer in a family-run photo sutdio that has been in operation since 1870. Thats right, heaps of wet plates, albumin prints and an archive that documents the rural life in a medium sized Japanese town spanning almost 150 years.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) I am not working digital while I am here, so I can't show you the portrait I made of him, but this is one he made of me.

Thanks Yuki, for the glance into your family's history and I will take you up on your offer of coming back again in 2 weeks.....

To keep up a bit with my Japan travels, go to the BUFFET where I am trying to keep some news up and running.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

off to japan

 

I am leaving early tomorrow for NIIGATA. I will do my best to make an interesting body of work in conjunction with the European Eyes on Japan series. I won't be responding to email right away, but will hopefully find some fodder for the blog and a few interesting images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo-EYE, best books of 2008

 

Photo-Eye Magazine has just posted an in-depth interactive link to the top books of 2008, selected by 18 "photo-world luminaries". This could help you prepare your christmas list for next year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gone again
off to Photo Miami and Higley

 

I will be traveling the next 2 weeks, first to Miami to the Photo Miami Fair. In case you are around, stop by and say hi at the space of Robert Morat.
After that I am going to Higley for a week to photograph. I shall be a bit silent in the weeks to come, but at least a bit tanner...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

unseen slideshow night
photographs, wine and a possible bonfire
Friday Nov. 21, 2008

 

If you are in or near Nottingham on Friday Nov. 21st you should stop by the Backlit Gallery and check out a slide show evening presented by the artist collective UNSEEN. They will be featuring works of their own as well as Amy Elkins, Simon Roberts, a series of mine and about 30 more photographers.

Here is a link to the event and more about UNSEEN, a group worth watching. I met a few of them when I was in Hamburg reviewing portfolios earlier this year.

Wine and samosas are fine but any time there is a threat of a bonfire, its got to be a good party. Backlit Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

upcoming fairs etc
places I will be

 

Here is a list of the various fairs where you can see either books or photographs of mine. If you are around, please say hi.

14-19 Ocotber: Frankfurt Book Fair with KEHRER

29-31 October: Berlinerliste fair with Robert Morat

13-16 Nov.: Paris Photo, signing with Haprer Levine on Sat. 15th at 2pm

3-7 Dec.: Photo Miami with Robert Morat


wow, graphically this is certainly the ugliest posting i have ever made....


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BAGHDAD SUITE
Limited edition book
I just signed number 90. Thanks everyone

 

BAGHDAD SUITE
A surrealistic moment from the streets of Baghdad.
Andrew Phelps



The definitions of place and time become diffused in a tightly edited selection of 8 large-format images depicting what we have come to recognize as a war-torn Iraq. The irritation begins when we realize that this Baghdad is possibly not in the Middle East, but maybe, just maybe, east of Phoenix, Arizona.



Baghdad Suite is a self-published book-on-demand in a limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies.

To read and see more, please go here, and here, to FOTODOK
or something new from Blint

Or better yet, read what the folks at 5b4 were able to get thier hands on.........

Numbers 1-20
come with a 24x30 cm print of the cover image
320,– US (220,– eur)


Numbers 21-70-------THESE ARE SOLD OUT as of May 25th.
65,– US (45,– eur)


Numbers 71-90 ----THESE ARE SOLD OUT as of Sept 28th.
125,- US (88,- eur)


Numbers 91-100
150,- US (100,- eur)


Self-published, 2008
in cooperation with the Galerie Simone Feichtner in Linz
8 color images and a text from Benjamin Glahn
Hard-bound with dust jacket
10x8 inches
20 pages


You can get it at Bildschöne Bücher, Dashwood, or Deichtorhallen


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lecture at FOTODOK
Hit the Road, Utrecht, NL

 

FOTODOK, a new international space for documentary photography is launching its first event this month. If you happen to be around, I will be talking about my work on Sept. 24th. To get the full information about this new space, check out their homepage.

LECTURES AT FOTODOK

Andrew Phelps / Erik Kessels / Martin Parr
- Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2008
- Place: Debatcentrum TUMULT, Utrecht, NL
- Begin: 19:30 / doors open at 19:00
- Price: 7,50 / Students 5,00

For reservations go to info@fotodok.org Space is limited.

Read more about FOTODOK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the smallest show ever
the tinytinygroupshow #6

 

Hands down the smallest show I have ever been in, including my show at the Alcatraz Gallery in 2002 where I showed in the toilet. (Don't ask, although I do have some nice pictures of that one...)

Kevin Miyazaki has compiled a group show of 11 photographers, all making one image at 12 noon on August 17th. The list is filled with some you may know, and some new names to me as well. There is no excuse to not stop by, simply click here.

Thanks for the leg, (or finger?) work Kevin. Kevin Miyazaki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

higley meets the hamptons
A show at Harper Levine, E. Hampton

 

Harper's Books is pleased to announce our new exhibit:

ANDREW PHELPS - HIGLEY

August 23 – October 14

Please join us at a reception for the artist:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, FROM 6:00 – 8:00 PM

With the publication of his critically acclaimed book Higley, Andrew Phelps joined an illustrious group of American photographers, Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz among them, who have documented the rise of the suburban southwest.

Published by Kehrer Verlag in 2007, Higley is both a study of the altered landscape of a small Arizona town, as well as a commentary on the consequences of unabated urban sprawl. While Phelps' piercing color images track the personal and architectural tragedies of random and rampant development, his pictures capture a humor and individualism that transcend the monolithic rise of strip malls and four lane highways.

Harper's Books is pleased to host an exhibition of selected photographs from the Higley series. Phelps, an Arizona native now living and teaching in Salzburg, Austria, will travel to the Hamptons to attend his opening on Saturday, August 23.

ANDREW PHELPS - HIGLEY
Harper's Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 way lens
Questions and Answers

 

There is an interesting blog by Michael Werner which asks 3 simple, yet pivotal questions which are then answered by selected photographers. He asked me to give my thoughts.


Two Way Lens is a project designed to inform and inspire emerging photographers wanting to focus their creative output in a way that enhances their chances of finding an audience, being included in exhibitions and ultimately achieving gallery representation. The journey from inspired artist to successful artist is one that is often difficult to negotiate and hard to control. On these pages, I will feature the experiences and opinions of other photographers who I have found inspiring, and hopefully the knowledge they have built in their own experiences will be valuable to all of us finding our own way to sharing our creativity with the wider world. (Michael Werner)

Two Way Lens
Michael Werner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a new look for photo-eye

 

Photo-Eye, the New Mexico based bookstore and gallery has launched its new web pressence and although Photo-Eye has always been one of the prominant spaces for on-line book shopping, thier new Magazine has become so much more: visual server, photography guide, newsletter.


"The biggest change in moving online may be the ability to engage readers and photography connosuiers directly, through our blogs and article comments. One thing I've learned during my time at photo-eye is the depth of our audience's interest and knowledge. The conversations I've had with our readers and customers have consistently been a high point of my job, and constitute a discourse I'm eager to see flourish on a much larger scale. So I'll take this opportunity to both celebrate the beginning of the new photo-eye Magazine and invite you to take full advantage of our new format by weighing in on—and expanding the discourse surrounding—the ever growing world of photography books".

Daniel Espeset, editor


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stop by, fill your plate, come again

 

The Buffet is open........

BUFFET is an online archive of limited-edtion photo books, artist's books, book+print sets, etc.

Send me an email if you have something I should consider posting. I am by absolutely no means an expert, just a fan trying to shed some light, dig up some gems, and help you with your gift giving. The only criteria, (and this is why Buffet will never be an authority) is that I have to like it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hindsight
a great graphic by Stamen.com
found on Lens Culture

 

Tom Carden from Stamen.com sent out, via Lens Culture, this wonderful graphic showing the demise of HIGLEY.

http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=33.306&lon=-111.721&zoom=15&mix=0.500

Copy and Paste it, zoom in a few clicks, and watch, like my friend Peter says, ".....a swarm of progress overtake it's immune system...."

Thanks Tom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lens culture // HIGLEY
a book review of Higley

 

Thanks to Jim Casper and Lens Culture for highlighting HIGLEY. Check out the list of great books they have in their archives and add the BLOG to your early morning ritual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Print for a Book 2008
Let\'s trade!

 

In an attempt to give my bookshelf a little more girth and finally get a hold of some titles I have been wanting for awhile I have decided to offer a Print-for-Book trade. I am stealing this idea from my friend and fellow photographer Todd Deutsch, who, by the way still has a few prints left, so check his list as well.

How it works:

Below is a list of books I would like.

Contact me before you send it off to make sure one hasn’t arrived already. You can either send it to my US address or to my European address. If you have a suggestion that is not on my list, don’t hesitate to ask and even let me know if you have a publication of your own that I might not know about.


Lewis Baltz - Rule Without Exception-----------------got it!
Richard Billingham – Ray’s a Laugh (wishful thinking)
Darin Mickey – Stuff I Gotta Remember Not to Forget--got it!
Lars Turnbjork – Vinter------------------------------got it!
Michael Campeau – Darkroom in Use---- got it!
Stephen Shore – Uncommen Places----------------got it!
Philip-Lorca diCorcia – A story Book Life
Joan Liftin – Drive-ins------------------------------got it!
Clare Richardson – Harlemville----------------------got it!
Alec Soth – Dog Days Bogota----------------------got it!
Alec Soth – Fashion Magazine------------------got it!
David Spero – Churches------------------------got it!
John Divola – Isolated Houses------------------go it!
John Divola – As far as I could get-------------got it!
Peter Biolobrzeski – Neon Tigers
Peter Biolobrzeski - Calcutta--------------------got it!
Janne Lehtinen – The Descendants--------------got it!
Mitch Epstein – The City------------------------got it!
Andrea Modica – Treadwell---------------------got it!
that guy and that other guy – Obvious and Ordinary-----got it!
Nicholas Nixon – The Brown Sisters----------got it!
Kieth Arnatt – I’m a Real Photographer-------got it!
Peter Granser – Coney Island------------------got it!
Simon Roberts – Motherland-------------------got it!
Todd Deutsch - Gamers-----------------------got it!
Raymond Meeks - Sound of Summer Running



The image:
From HIGLEY, 2006. 9 ½ x 12 inch c-print. Edition of 25.
(to clear up some confusion, this image is not in the Higley book, but from the series)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIts, blogs, netvibes
what a little Jörg can do

 

The graph to the left shows what happens to the hits on your site when Jörg Colberg, the man behind Conscientious mentioned HIGLEY last week. This got me thinking about how I spend my mornings, getting my bearings on what's out there. So, like my friend said, "show me your netvibes and I will show you who you are....." I have decided to pass along, in no particular order, just a few of the blogs that make up my netvibes page and help get a start to my day.

Thanks

Personism
Conscientious
Journal
5B4
Flak Photo
Horses Think
Notes on Politics, Theory and Photography
Lens Culture
Amy Stein
Ground Glass
40 Watt
Cigarettes and Purity


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

favorites from hamburg
Here are the highlights from the portfolios I viewed this weekend in Hamburg

 

During two intense days of looking at a lot of portfolios and eating way too many "Pfannkuchen" I wanted to share the few that stood out as interesting works I reviewed at the Trienale for Photography.

Here, in no particular order, are the works I would recommend taking a look at:

Debby Huysmans
Birgit Wingrad
Klaus Frahm
Heike Marie Krause
Claudia Eschborn
Julian Thomann
Gabriele Harhoff
Luke, James and Rachel at UNSEEN
Jon Etter


It was also great to meet the guy behind Lensculture, Mr. Jim Casper.


Moin, Moin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm Mr. September
2008 Calendar from Peter Weiermair
Grafiche Dell'Artiere

 

Peter Weiermair has, in cooperation with the Grafiche Dell'Artiere printers in Bologna, produced a beautiful calendar for 2008. The theme of this year's collection is the Still Life.

"...Of the classical themes explored in art and photography over the past centuries none is so compatible with poetic reflections on the passing of time and the unvarying sequence of the seasons as the still-life...."
Peter Weiermair

I was happy to have an image form Higley selected for September, and to be in company with the following artists:

Laura Letinsky
Michael Ziegler
Prabuddha Dasgupta
Matthias Hermann
Seiichi Furuya
Xiao hui Wang
Marilu Eustachio
Evelyn Hofer
Michael Wesely
Roger Ballen
Gerhard Trumler
Christopher Muller



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLAK photo - complete with week 4....
HIGLEY highlighted in April

 

FLAK PHOTO is highlighting HIGLEY for the weekend feature this month. Be sure to check it out, if for no other reason than to discover all that FLAK has to offer. I am privileged to be seen alongside some great work that has been showcased here since Andy Adams started it all in 2006.

here the link to the final four.

thanks Andy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. trienalle for photography, hamburg
Portfolio Reviews
11-20 of April, 2008

 

I have been invited to be a reviewer for the 4th Trianalle for Photography in Hamburg.

From the 11th to the 20th of April 2008 Hamburg will be Germany’s centre of photography. The event will be about getting creative people together to create new things, here and elsewhere.

It is about concentrating in one place unusual ideas, unlimited imagination, and extreme commitment to photography – in form of exhibitions, lectures, films, presentations, and encounters. It is about women and men from various countries throughout the world, with inputs of their personal experiences and ideas, who are showing what is happening throughout the world. And it is about giving a forum to the work of major photographers, both established talents and new ones.


Also, if you are in town, be sure to catch the show of Bertien v. Manen at the Galerie Robert Morat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lecture/ higley, nature de-luxe, everything inbetween
Northlight Gallery, Ariz. State Univ., Tempe, AZ
Thursday, March 20th. 7pm

 

I couldn't say it any better myself.......... this is all you need!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ffi Frankfurt
How to Hang a Book: Six Case Studies
Fotografie Forum International. Feb. 8-Mar. 16. in Frankfurt

 

Snowbound by Lisa M. Robinson
Higley by Andrew Phelps
Drift by Wolfgang Zurborn
China Naked by Frank Rothe
I’ll always walk away by Paula Rae Gibson
“Vorbild” by Michael Ehrhart


This exhibition highlights six current photography book releases from KEHRER Publishing in Heidelberg Germany. How to Hang a Book: 6 Case Studies enables an overview of the diverse yet clearly styled concept which a young art publisher defines itself on the contemporary international market. Each photographic project has a distinct theme and “picture language”.

Fotografie Forum international
Bockenheimer Landstraße 102
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Opening Event: Friday, Feb. 8th at 19:00
Gallery Talk and book sighning with Celina Lundsford and the artists: Saturday, Feb. 9th at 18:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening
Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg
12.01. - 26.02.2008, Hamburg

 

HIGLEY is opening tonight in the Galerie Robert Morat in Hamburg, starting at 6 pm. In case you happen to be in the "Hafenstadt" please stop by for a Becks, a bread-stick and a big taste of middle America loosing its foothold on reality. This will be the first in a run of shows including HIGLEY, so the spring is panning out to be filled with lots of travel and standing around shaking hands.

Robert Morat has a beautiful space in downtown Hamburg divided into 2 exhibition rooms and a very selected collection of books in his book store. Parallel to HIGLEY is the show "Sommerherz" from Thekla Ehling. Thekla just published a beautiful book of the same title which is available at Schaden Books.

 www.robertmorat.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHOTO-EYE Staff BOOK PICK
HIGLEY selected by Ben Lerman
December, 2007

 

Andrew Phelps: Higley

This week's pick is by one of our newest staff members, Ben Lerman.

"Prior to working here I got my BFA in photography at The California College of Arts and Crafts where I studied under Larry Sultan, Todd Hido, Chris Johnson and Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg, amongst others. After about a month of being at photo-eye I have chosen Higley, the fifth publication by Andrew Phelps, as my first staff pick.

Under the pretense that 'Globalization is too big to take a picture of,' photographer Andrew Phelps returns to his hometown, Higley, where he finds it to be a microcosmic example of the global phenomenon. Higley is a metaphor for what is happening on the edge of every major city in the American west, farming towns being assimilated by their metropolitan neighbors. In this book Phelps has been able to not only examine a city rushing to lose a history that scarcely existed, but also to confront his family's roots, a narrative that mimics the transformation of the town itself. Photographed over three years, this body of 81 color images culminated at the same time Higley lost its name in an amalgamation with Phoenix, Arizona."

—Ben Lerman

 PHOTO-EYE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interview
photos/truth/travels/ and such
2007 Austria

 

An interview, in german, by Johanna Hofleitner for
Die Presse-Schaufenster

 Link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARCHITEKTUR MOBIL
Zwischen modernem Nomadentum und Katastrophen
4.6. bis 24.7.2005

 

Rudolf-Scharpf-GalerieHemshofstr. 54, Ludwigshafenanlässlich der Internationalen Fototage Mannheim/LudwigshafenVernissage: 3.6. |19.00 UhrIm Zusammenhang mit der Globalisierung, der Expansion von Städten und der Mobilität, des modernen Nomadentums, spielt Architektur heute eine bedeutende Rolle. Die Behausung wird einerseits als fixer und dauerhafter Ort zu einem Rettungsanker im Trubel der komplexen Arbeits- und Gesellschaftsstrukturen. Architektur ist das, was uns täglich umgibt...
Boris Becker, Alain Blubex, Holger Bunk, Stefanie Bürkle, Stephen Craig, Peter Garfield, Magdalena Jetelova, Gudrun Kemsa, Maik und Dirk Löbbert, Euan Macdonald, Wasa Marjanov, Yves Netzhammer, Andrew Phelps, Hermann Pitz, Julian Rosefeldt / Piero Steinle, Daniel Roth, Mikio Saito, Yvonne Lee Schultz, Anett Stuth, Frank Thiel, Stefan Wissel, Seoungwon Won, u.a..

 Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buchpräsentation THERESIENHÖHE
Book presentation and show
September 7, 2005, Deutsches Museum, Munich

 

Ein fotografisches Projekt
Franziska v. Gagern, Peter Neusser, Ulrike Myrzik, Zoltán Jókay, Andrew Phelps, Wolfgang Thaler

München, am Mittwoch 7. September, 2005 Verkehrszentrum des Deutschen Museums, Theresienhöhe 14 -- Eröffnung um 18:00 Uhr und Wäcker & Jordanow - Galerie für Fotografie, Gollierstrasse 17 -- Ausstellungsdauer: 8.9. - 30.10.2005 -- „Wenn nach langen Phasen der Verlagerung und des Abrisses ein großes Gelände im Herzen einer Stadt frei wird entsteht ein Wetteifern um die Vision für ein neues Bild der Stadt an dieser Stelle. Die Bilder der Fotografen stehen zwischen Plan und Wirklichkeit und irgendwo zwischen gestern und morgen.“ -- Über 5 Jahre haben sechs Fotokünstler das Entstehen des neuen Stadtquartiers Theresienhöhe auf dem Ehemaligen Münchner Messegelände mit der Kamera begleitet.

Peter Neusser Ulrike Myrzik Zoltán Jókay Wolfgang Thaler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Portraits, Some Landscapes
a show with Paul Kranzler at Simone Feichtner, linz
Opening: Fr. 26.January, 2007

 

My friend paul and I will fill the walls of Simone Feichtner's new gallery with a visual mix of, well you can guess, some portraits and some landscapes. Our works bounce effortlessly between these two genres, convinced that they have more in common with one another than one might think; landscapes defined by their inhabitants-people influenced by their surroundings. Stop by, have a look, eat, drink and see Linz's newest place to be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFF-TIME
Show at the Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken
Aug 10, 2007. Saarbrücken, Germany

 

Catherine Gfeller
Peter Granser
Andrew Phelps
Janine Schrijver
Massimo Vitali

Opnening on Aug 10, 2007
Aug. 11 - Oct. 10, 2007

with a publication from KEHRER
www.kehrerverlag.de