Jörg Sasse

German photographer

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Jörg Sasse (born 1962) is a German photographer.^[1]^[2] His work uses found images that are scanned, pixelated and manipulated.^[3]

In 2003 Sasse won the Cologne Fine Art Award^[4] and in 2005 was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.^[3] His work is held in the collections of the Belvedere, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Städel.

Life and work

Sasse attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1982 to 1988, where he studied under Bernd Becher.^[5]^[6] Since 1994 his work has involved digitally manipulating found images—primarily land- and cityscapes. "He developed a process of scanning images into his computer, changing them, and then making film negatives of these manipulated images, from which the final prints are made."^[5]

Publications

Books of work by Sasse

Vierzig Fotografien 1984 – 1991. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1992. ISBN 9783888144653. With texts by Gerda Breuer and Thomas Lange.
Arbeiten am Bild. Kunsthalle Bremen; Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2001. ISBN 9783829600316. With texts by Sasse, Andreas Kreul and Detlef Bernhard Linke.
Tableaux & Esquisses. Museum of Grenoble; Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2004. ISBN 9783829601726. With a text by Guy Tosatto.
Tableaus & Skizzen 2004/2005, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstverein Hannover; Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2005. ISBN 9783829602167. With texts by Stefan Gronert, Stephan Berg and Martin Engler.
Skizzen – Der Grenoble Block. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2006. ISBN 9783829602686. With texts by Sasse and Tosatto, in English, French, and German.
d8207. Cologne: Walther König, 2007. ISBN 9783865602572.

Publications with contributions by Sasse

The Düsseldorf School of Photography. New York: Aperture, 2010. Germany: Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. Edited by Stefan Gronert. Includes work by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Sasse, Thomas Struth, and Petra Wunderlich; a foreword by Lothar Schirmer, an essay by Gronert, and summary biographies, exhibition lists and bibliographies for each of the photographers. ISBN 978-1-59711-136-2.^[7]^[8]

Awards

2003: Cologne Fine Art Award, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany^[4]
2005: Shortlisted, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, The Photographers' Gallery, London^[9]^[10]

Collections

Sasse's work is held in the following public collections:

Belvedere, Vienna, Austria^[11]
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland: 2 prints (as of December 2020)^[12]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: 2 prints (as of December 2020)^[5]
Städel, Frankfurt, Germany: 6 prints (as of December 2020)^[13]

Films about Sasse

Skizzen und Tableaux (Buchhandlung König, 2017) – by Ralph Goertz; 34 minutes

References

^ "Jörg Sasse . Serendipity". C/O Berlin. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
^ Leske, Marion (6 August 2001). "Der diskrete Charme der Banalität: Fotograf Jörg Sasse". Die Welt. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
^ ^a ^b "Deutsche Borse photography prize exhibition, Photographers' Gallery, London". The Guardian. 6 April 2005. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ ^a ^b "Cologne Fine Art-Preis | Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthaendler e.V." www.bvdg.de. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ "Arts: The New Unromantics". The Independent. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
^ "The Düsseldorf School of Photography, Stefan Gronert (ed.)". Collector Daily. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ Colberg, Jörg. "Review: The Düsseldorf School of Photography by Stefan Gronert". Conscientious. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ "Deutsche Borse photography prize 2005". Deutsche Börse Photograhy Foundation Prize. 6 April 2005. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
^ "Jörg Sasse at the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation". www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ "Jörg Sasse". sammlung.belvedere.at. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ "Jörg Sasse - Artist - Collection - Explore - Fotomuseum Winterthur". www.fotomuseum.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
^ "Jörg Sasse". Städel. Retrieved 2020-12-27.