Ridin Crop with Spur and Jacket, 1924 (card)
Paul Outerbridge, Jr.
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, German
Price: €8

Paul Outerbridge, Jr. emerged in the 1920s as a bold innovator, transforming ordinary objects, such as milk bottles, collars, eggs, into fractured Cubist constructions of light and form. His platinum and silver gelatin prints reduced subjects to intersecting planes and geometric rhythms, revealing a structural beauty aligned with the avant-garde movements of his time.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

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Strömungen, 1944 (card)
Werner Bischof
Published by Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 15 × 10.8 cm, French
Price: €10

The Swiss photographer Werner Bischof started his career in studio photography in Zürich and later documented Europe in the aftermath of World War II. He joined the famous photographers group Magnum Photos in 1949 and travelled the world.

Disliking the ‘superficiality and sensationalism of the magazine business, he devoted much of his working life to looking for order and tranquility in traditional culture, something that did not endear him to picture editors looking for hot topical material. Bischof died at the early age of 38 in a car accident in the Andes of Peru.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

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Guy Mees (card)
Published by Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 2016, card. (b/w ill.), 15.2 × 10.7 cm, English
Price: €14

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Guy Mees at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 9 September–22 October, 2016.

Guy Mees’s (1935–2003) photographs, videos, and above all his fragile works on paper are characterised by a formal rigour combined with sensitivity and delicacy. The uniqueness of his oeuvre lies precisely in its avoidance of conventional aesthetics and discursive classifications. A leading figure of the Belgian avant-garde, Mees left behind an outstanding body of work that transgresses geometric abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and applied art.

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Luciano Fabro (card)
Published by Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 1985, card. (b/w ill.), 14.5 × 9.9 cm, Dutch
Price: €18

Produced on the occasion of Luciano Fabro’s exhibition at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, that opened on 20 May, 1985.

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Luciano Fabro (card)
Published by Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 2016, card. (b/w ill.), 15.2 × 10.6 cm, English
Price: €8

Produced on the occasion of Luciano Fabro’s exhibition at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 20 April–4 June, 2016.

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Heimo Zobernig (card)
Published by Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 2020, card. (b/w ill.), 15 × 10.6 cm, English
Price: €8

Produced on the occasion of Heimo Zobernig’s exhibition at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 13 March–15 April, 2020

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