Henry wesselyring hamburg

In 2012 Henry Wessel assembled Incidents a book of 27 previously unpublished photographs Decisive and succinct each incident is laid down with the aesthetic immediacy of a snapshot recalling Garry Winogrand s quote that there is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described As Wessel stated in a recent interview We can recognize and name what has been described but not what just happened not what is going on not what is about to happen Once you accept the idea that all photographs are fictions analogies for the things they represent then you are receptive to the meaning that is being suggested by that analogy by that fiction To be specific photographs are about something that would not exist without the photograph Henry Wessel IncidentsA few gems but it seems like a poor edit for the most part The quality of the physical book is exceptional Hardcover