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Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
  • Elias Holzknecht (AT)

Regular
 35
Signed
 40
200 × 280 mm
192 pages
German + English
Exposed selfcover with American dust jacket
TEC122
First edition: 750
9789493363014
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection
  • Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf - The Eriskay Connection

Concept and photography:
Elias Holzknecht

Editing:
Elias Holzknecht
Carel Fransen

Texts:
Elias Holzknecht
Georges Perec
Heinz Wagner
International Music
Johannes
Karl Baedeker
Robert Musil
Wanda

Translations:
Ben Lepesant
Nathalie Posch

Design:
Carel Fransen

Lithography:
Marc Gijzen

Production:
Jos Morree (Fine Books)

Print and binding:
Wilco Art Books (NL)

Supported by:
Bildrecht
Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport
Land Tirol Kulturabteilung
Land Kärnten Abteilung Kunst und Kultur
Land Oberösterreich Abteilung Kultur
Stadt Graz

While exploring the society he grew up in, Elias Holzknecht (AT) ended up in the village of Micheldorf in Upper Austria by chance. There he found beauty in the everyday: a small community of almost 6,000 people who sleep, eat, walk, and work, and for whom Micheldorf is the centre of their lives.

As he engaged with village life, he became increasingly aware that no form of representation could do justice to the complexity of a social space. Micheldorf could not be squeezed into a single narrative: even the name was ambiguous, as three other Micheldorfs exist in the same country. The story therefore concentrates not on one, but on all four eponymous localities.

The result is a body of work that takes a critical look at how photography can depict a place and the people who live there. Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf gives the impression of a linear narrative, a typological study of an Austrian village, a feeling that is reinforced by the modernist design approach. However, there are several versions of the same book, a conceptual element that is already hinted at in the title. Each version contains the same images and fragments of dialogue, but in a different order, highlighting the complexity of a story that at first glance seems clearly comprehensible.

This conceptual approach shows how the photographic construction of a narrative helps to create an image of a place and the people who live there, and invites the reader to think about Micheldorf beyond what is shown.

Elias Holzknecht is a freelance photographer based between Hannover (Germany) and Innsbruck (Austria). Studying Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in Hannover, he is interested in social and geopolitical issues. He is a founding member of the photographer community “What’s left of Photography”.

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