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Fred Waldvogel: PilzeFor more than forty years, Fred Waldvogel (19221997) explored the hidden world of fungi through his lens, combining scientific precision with an unmistakably poetic eye. Calling himself a Fotografiker, he staged mushrooms like tableaux vivants in his Zurich studio, creating compositions that revealed both their morphology and their character. His photographs, which illustrated the classic Silva Verlag handbooks Pilze 1 and Pilze 2 (1972), were

Beyond their documentary value

What we see now is what is left after they have gone through a process of change

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It’s a charming way to represent the attempt of communication between two people

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These texts

The paintings have an effect

which describes an empire where cartography becomes so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice

In a condensation of images

Two walks through the Bibliothek Hauptpost

and the tension between abstraction and materiality

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