Balthasar Burkhard Shadow

With his monumental enlargements of the seventies--nudes, portraits, parts of the body--Balthasar Burkhard sustantially influenced the debate on the conditions of photography as an art form. In the works that followed, he explored the potential of form, size, and structure to render sublime the pictorial impact of archaic motifs. The publication traces Burkhard's--oeuvre through to his animal portraits and demonstrates the importance of his contribution to the development of art photography.