Michael Schnabel

Michael Schnabel is a photographer whose creative ambitions are unusually demanding. His work is characterized by the complexity of its subject matter: a veritable world of motifs that he is capable of visualizing and realizing down to the last detail. The ‘decisive’ moment is an essential feature of his work, because it is by means of meticulous preparation, a clear concept and extreme sensitivity that Schnabel literally ‘composes’ his visual worlds.

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Pigment Print on Kozo paper
2023

Michael Schnabel

Michael Schnabel is a photographer whose creative ambitions are unusually demanding. His work is characterized by the complexity of its subject matter: a veritable world of motifs that he is capable of visualizing and realizing down to the last detail. The ‘decisive’ moment is an essential feature of his work, because it is by means of meticulous preparation, a clear concept and extreme sensitivity that Schnabel literally ‘composes’ his visual worlds.

Michael Schnabel est un photographe dont les ambitions créatives sont exceptionnellement exigeantes. Son travail se caractérise par la complexité de ses sujets : un véritable monde de motifs qu'il est capable de visualiser et de réaliser dans les moindres détails. Le moment « décisif », est une caractéristique essentielle de son travail, car c'est au moyen d'une préparation méticuleuse, d'un concept clair et d'une sensibilité extrême que Schnabel « compose » littéralement ses mondes visuels.

Biography

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Born in 1966, Michael Schnabel studied photography in Darmstadt. He now lives and works in Hochdorf, in southern Germany. It was during an extended stay in San Francisco that he began photographing the landscape, with a radically new approach. Cities, deserts, ice, mountains and skies, the photographer transforms theses landscapes with a documentary precision but also a lyrical breath that reminds of romantic painting. He is also known for being a perfectionist in the care he gives to his prints. His Stille Berge series, mountains photographed in the night with a velvand black appearance, was nominated for the Prix Voies Off in Arles in 2011 and Weisses Land won the Brita Award in 2012. His work is regularly exhibited, as in the randrospective show held at the Osthaus Museum in Hagen in 2011, and resulted in several publications. Also a renowned commercial photographer and winner of numerous awards, he created over the years a series of personal work, clearly identifiable and of a spectacular beauty, which questions the landscape and the relationships between humans and nature.

Né en 1966, Michael Schnabel étudie la photographie à Darmstadt. Il vit et travaille désormais à Hochdorf, dans le sud de l’Allemagne. C’est lors d’un séjour prolongé à San Francisco qu’il commence à photographier le paysage, avec une approche inédite. Qu’il s’agisse des villes, des déserts, de la banquise, des montagnes ou des ciels, le photographe transfigure le paysage, avec une précision documentaire mais aussi un souffle lyrique qui évoque la peinture romantique et un soin perfectionniste apporté aux tirages. Sa série Stille Berge, montagnes noires et veloutées photographiées de nuit a été nominée pour le Prix Voies Off à Arles en 2011 et Weisses Land a reçu le Prix Brita 2012. Son travail est régulièrement exposé, comme lors de la rétrospective que lui consacre le Osthaus Museum de Hagen en 2011, et a donné lieu à plusieurs publications. Photographe commercial réputé et récompensé par de nombreux prix, il compose au fil des séries une oeuvre personnelle, clairement identifiable et d’une beauté spectaculaire, qui interroge le paysage et le lien que l’humain entretient avec la nature.

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Paris Photo

Grand Palais

Paris
07.11
10.11.2024
2024

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Paris
21.03
15.05.2012
2012

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Exhibition

Paris
25.09
31.10.2008
2008

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