Albrecht Fuchs: MK 95

Kippenberger

Published in spring 2008, Albrecht Fuchs has been nominated for the "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008" (organised by the renowned Photographer's Gallery, London) with his selection of photographic works "Portraits". The press had already reacted euphorically to the publication of the book with large photo spreads (for example in Welt and Frankfurter Rundschau) and declared the Cologne photographer to be the "artists' favourite". That this is no exaggeration is shown by the small, inspiring and initial series of photographs that Albrecht Fuchs took of Martin Kippenberger in the course of 1995. He accompanied him to Dawson City, his studio or the Black Forest and experienced what he himself calls "his lessons as a photographer".
This tremendous phenomenon Kippenberger, always and everywhere photographed, good for many outstanding pictorial ideas, spontaneous and witty, as some mistakenly believe, knew his pictorial effect precisely and calculated it in order to tease out the greatest possible fidelity to his idea from the photographers. This was not posing, and to the extent that Albrecht Fuchs was enthusiastic about this process, he achieved his independent and sensitive portrait style. The volume in a special format, carefully printed and finished, is published only in a small, signed and limited edition of 800 copies, 30 of which are reserved for a special edition with three Kippenberger motifs.