Jörg Sasse

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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 ; 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[]

Further reading[]

• Serendipity. Vom Glück des Findes: Niklas Luhmann, Ulrich Rückriem, Jörg Sasse. Snoeck Verlagsges, 2015. By Michael Diers. ISBN 9783864421495. German-language.

External links[]

• Official website