Albrecht Fuchs

Setting or Sitting – Albrecht Fuchs, born in Bielefeld in 1964, is a portraitist who works with photography. His method of respectful distance and affectionate empathy produces a curious tension in his pictures, for all their balance and calm. Naturally, the sitters look out openly and earnestly from these images, which are made with exceptional care in their colour composition and lighting. In their own way they wish to appear likeable, and in doing so are always also a little removed. Yet on closer contemplation one feels that an authenticity of the moment is perceptible here that otherwise remains denied to us. With his portraits of Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, John Baldessari, Wolfgang Tillmans, Bruno Brunnet, Isabella Rossellini, Joschka Fischer and Ennio Morricone, to name only some of the more prominent, Albrecht Fuchs is our constant companion in magazines such as art and Monopol or in newspapers such as the Süddeutsche and the FAZ. The present volume brings together for the first time a larger selection of photographs, whose sequence was likewise compiled by Albrecht Fuchs himself.