Once an esteemed contributor to our very own magazine, German photographer Frank Hulsbomer has, for the past decade or so, been making a name for himself as one of the most innovative image-makers of his generation.
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Best known for his purely formal, intricate photographic approach, Hulsbomer will this month release his first solo tome, The Fiction of Science.
A sumptuous, matte paper publication, The Fiction of Science features a heady series of Hulsbomer’s aesthetically abstract, conceptualized images which - in the photographers idiosyncratic style - veer between sketchy, incidentally captured shots and meticulously placed compositions.
Despite the minor variables that inform each photograph, the book is afforded a sense of visual consistency thanks to Hulsbomer’s sensitive approach to colour, form, material and geometry – endowing each photograph with an innate Hulsbomer-esque quality.
With matte black glitter balls, bright elastic bands, perforated sheets of paper and multi-coloured circles of card constituting his photographic subjects, all the photos are free from human interference, defining their uncorrupt, clean-lined digitalism.
And with chapters including ‘Rubber Dreaming’, ‘The Tennis Speed of Light’ and ‘Anatomy of Surface’ – Hulsbomer has been sure to imbue the book with his own characteristic sense of irony - although we’re pretty certain it won’t be the text that's catching your eye.
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The Fiction of Science is available this month from Gestalten publishers for £37.50
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