Josef hoflehner biography
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Josef Hoflehner
Waiting for the Sun
By Josef Hoflehner, Jakob Hoflehner
Publisher : Publisher : Most Press
| 72 pages
Waiting for the Sun the artists' first full-color book, is a dedication to the golden era of the American automobile industry. The s and 70s arguably saw some of the best-designed cars to ever leave a manufacturing plant. Once seen bumper-to-bumper throughout the country, these automobiles are a rare sight on U.S. roads today.
Over the past five years, we have driven across America, from coast to coast, along miles of highway and through countless neighborhoods, searching for vintage automobiles. Whether covered in snow during a winter Nebraska night, or shining in the sun of the Nevada desert, to us, these cars perfectly fit the American landscape.' - from the introduction by Jakob Hoflehner. The Hollywood-movie-like, but completely unstaged, photographs immediately take us back some 30 or 40 years in time, as the photographers were very selective and made great efforts to avoid most modern amenities and surroundings in their works.
Bound in yellow vinyl, Waiting for the Sun is published in a limited edition of oversized hardcover copies.
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Josef Hoflehner Austrian, b.
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Shimabara Laurel, Japan,
Private Property, Snowscapes, Austria,
Black Beach - Iceland,
Everglades Burning, Florida
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Liquid Disclose, Iceland
Manhattan Before Dawning, New Royalty City,
Paradise Drive, Island
Study Havana, Cuba,
Salt Pan, Calif.,
Secluded, Island,
South Prc Sea, Dishware,
Desert, Metropolis, Arizona,
American Landscape,
Waikiki, Honolulu, Island,
Beach Football, Rio save Janeiro, Brasil,
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Nothing is orchestrated. Hoflehner waits for the right moment, and sometimes uses long exposures, the kind that the earliest photographers had to use. “Josef Hoflehner takes a landscape and turns it into art,” British journalist Elizabeth Roberts wrote. He often raises known views to new visions. So even in a New York City shot pulsing with life, he can isolate and highlight a special form of stillness and beauty.
Today, Hoflehner is represented by leading photography art galleries worldwide, and his exquisite prints are found in a constantly growing number of public, private and corporate collections around the globe. His work was subject to more than 50 solo-exhibitions to date and was featured in the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Newsweek and Financial Times. He is known for his dramatic black-and-white landscape and subtle color images. Hoflehner is also known for the “Jet Airliner” (–) series, which features mostly high-drama photographs of low-flying passenger planes over a public beach on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, and his “Frozen History” (–) project, which documents the centur