Book Description
Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Armin Zweite, and Rainer Rochlitz. This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter's monumental project Atlas, an assemblage of photographs that he has collected since 1962. Atlas, which at present comprises more than 5,000 images, constitutes an ordered collection of personal visual memories from which Richter draws the themes and motifs for his ongoing exploration of the possibilities of painting. The images range from political portraits to landscapes and from found photojournalistic pictures to photographs taken by the artist himself.

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